<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20134]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I have watched my crowds dwindle. I am going nowhere, and nowhere quick, but, those of you who have children, I am sorry to tell you this, but they are not special. Wait! I know some of you are going "what, what?" Let me just clarify: I know YOU think they're special ... ha ha ha! I'm aware of that. I'm just here to tell you, that they're NOT! Ha ha ha ha! Sorry. Did you know that every time a guy comes he comes two-hundred million sperm? One out of TWO-HUNDRED MILLION – that load, we're only talking about one load – connected: gee, what are the fucking odds? Do you know what that means? I've wiped nations off've my chest with a grey gymsock. ENTIRE CIVILISATIONS HAVE FLAKED AND CRUSTED IN THE HAIR AROUND MY NAVEL! [...] I've tossed universes in my underpants while napping. Boom! A Milkyway shoots into my jockeyshorts: "Unngh ... what's for fucking breakfast?!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't scared of them. We felt we could match up with them. The only thing was that I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31588]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't scared of them. We felt we could match up with them. The only thing was that I think we got away from attacking like we had. They had 20 turnovers, but we didn't take advantage of as many of them as we should have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14138]]></link><description><![CDATA[More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travel alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travel alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone could have gotten where they are by making a few wrong choices. Its very exciting to watch them gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone could have gotten where they are by making a few wrong choices. Its very exciting to watch them gain recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a private conversation between myself and another elected official, and that's the end of it. We can work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a private conversation between myself and another elected official, and that's the end of it. We can work on other issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61058</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at our meeting, he's basically addressed those, and in my opinion gone above and beyond as far as putting out extra work and expending money out of his pocket to try to help accommodate people who are in a low-lying area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thought driven home is better than three left on base. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22665]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thought driven home is better than three left on base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about getting mad, getting crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about getting mad, getting crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night,   Her matchless songs does meditate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20799]]></link><description><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27316]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -Joseph Addison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak,  I heard five bobolinks laughing together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4418]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak,  I heard five bobolinks laughing together,   Over some ornithological joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a basis of tribal identity or group politics in our culture; the concept of tolerance is never invoked in this context because there is too obviously nothing to tolerate. In a rational culture, the same would be true of race, ethnicity, and the like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62322]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47337]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This allows the students to receive an education tomorrow if they so choose, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39885]]></link><description><![CDATA[This allows the students to receive an education tomorrow if they so choose,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There weren't any great performances, but we won it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36501]]></link><description><![CDATA[There weren't any great performances, but we won it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36501</guid></item></channel></rss>