<?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[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it was Fox, actually; Fox, the studio, which had sold the rights to the television show, as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31018]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it was Fox, actually; Fox, the studio, which had sold the rights to the television show, as I understand it, but had retained the film rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27597]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25665]]></link><description><![CDATA[First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49957]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26253]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak   That once familiar word.   - Thomas Haynes Bayly,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11670]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13605]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19366]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was predestined to have free will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was predestined to have free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2143]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon  Est l'Amphitryon ou l'on dine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon  Est l'Amphitryon ou l'on dine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17243]]></link><description><![CDATA["The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hate fatigues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18818]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hate fatigues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array of remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13205]]></link><description><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a cow!"   And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill    Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,     His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw--      "I almost that that I could eat one raw."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly successful subscriber acquisition program, we hope to be providing Web access to more individuals than any ISP or online service other than America Online before too much longer,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11407]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10581</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[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,   To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd    Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7175]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong that is or can be done unto Him. This we see in Christ when He saith: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."  ... Theologia Germanica  June 21, 1998  Alas! day by day we ask that His Will may be done, and yet, when it comes to the doing, we find it so hard! We offer ourselves so often to God -- we continually say, "Lord, I am Thine, I give Thee my heart," and when He accepts it, we are such cowards. How dare we call ourselves His, if we cannot shape our own wills to His?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. •Muhammad Ali  Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. •Unknown  Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. •Anonymous   My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. •Anonymous   Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It created quite a mess here in Massachusetts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It created quite a mess here in Massachusetts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19338]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is the priest of the invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is the priest of the invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65050]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65050</guid></item></channel></rss>