<?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[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly because I have not the learning to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly because I have not the learning to do so, still more because I am no great friend to such pigeon-holing. One very effective way of silencing the voice of conscience is to impound in an Ism the teacher through whom it speaks; the trumpet no longer seriously disturbs our rest when we have murmured '..Thomist', 'Barthian', or 'Existentialist'. And in Macdonald it is, always the voice of conscience that speaks. He addresses the will: the demand for obedience, for "something to be neither more nor less nor other than done" is incessant. Yet in that very voice of conscience every other faculty somehow speaks as well -- intellect and imagination and humour and fancy and all the affections; and no man in modern times was perhaps more aware of the distinction between Law and Gospel, the inevitable failure of mere morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46983]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask of specific progress, I'd say we are committed to remain politically engaged, they had be prepared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask of specific progress, I'd say we are committed to remain politically engaged, they had be prepared to add political impetus required to reach an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illegitimis non carborundum."Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illegitimis non carborundum."Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28485]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prime aim is to go to see the permanent member who has not been briefed properly. I think I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41938]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prime aim is to go to see the permanent member who has not been briefed properly. I think I owe it to the Chinese that I explain what has happened in these talks that I have attended, ... This Week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13677]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4958]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles of underwriting claims very well managed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be  A face more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be  A face more pleasant than the face of men.   Thy waves are old companions, I shall see    A well remembered form in each old tree     And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears,  Forget-me-not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears,  Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue,   Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869]]></link><description><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best  To damn and perjure all the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best  To damn and perjure all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40681]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to abide with what they ruled. The league thinks if one team does it, everybody is going to do it, and it would set a precedent by letting everybody go there and get benefits above and beyond what the collective bargaining agreement calls for. I don't agree or disagree. That's what the league is ruling, and I'm going to abide by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were taking kickbacks, it could be happening anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50499</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[You can be right or you can be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22351]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be right or you can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62311]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too;  For no form of a god, and no fashion   Man has made in his desperate passion,    But is worthy some worship of mine;     Not too hot with a gross belief,      Nor yet too cold with pride,       I will bow me down where my brothers bow,        Humble, but open eyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because his wishes were clear, I think this is a very strong case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because his wishes were clear, I think this is a very strong case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I could not stop for deathHe kindly stopped for meThe carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortaility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I could not stop for deathHe kindly stopped for meThe carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortaility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that despiseth it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49006]]></link><description><![CDATA[A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that despiseth it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All intellectual improvement arises from leisure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All intellectual improvement arises from leisure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care,  Well pleased with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care,  Well pleased with delights which present are,   Fair seasons, budding sprays, sweet-smelling flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32594]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57018</guid></item></channel></rss>