<?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[The devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In their search for environmental influences in human health, study researchers plan to examine such factors as the food children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In their search for environmental influences in human health, study researchers plan to examine such factors as the food children eat, the air they breathe, their schools and neighborhoods, how often they see a health care provider and even the composition of the house dust in their homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44188]]></link><description><![CDATA[To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53552]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44238]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;  Still to my brother turns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;  Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,   And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's any animosity between the two sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35837]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's any animosity between the two sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62859]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art requires courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3149]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art requires courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3149</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26218]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're strongly opposed. We feel (consolidation) has already gone too far and the vast majority of the American people feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're strongly opposed. We feel (consolidation) has already gone too far and the vast majority of the American people feel the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52765]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before and how can you find out if it is true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2843]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His thinking was a little off and too complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42545]]></link><description><![CDATA[His thinking was a little off and too complicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55702]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names and men as these Which never were, nor no man ever saw. -The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be created out of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be created out of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes life worth living is the mutual enrichment of people through understanding, intelligence and affection. It is just here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes life worth living is the mutual enrichment of people through understanding, intelligence and affection. It is just here that our awareness that Jesus is our contemporary and that Calvary is relevant to our present human situation ought to help us greatly. And that is not merely because in his relationships with others during his earthly life in Palestine Jesus exemplified all that I have tried to say about human relationships. In every genuine human encounter with another person we may become aware of Jesus, and meet with him. This may sound fanciful, but there is much in the Scriptures and in Christian experience which suggests that Jesus is frequently met in the traffic of person with person, provided that there is a genuine encounter between them. Jesus himself showed that for this to happen demands courage and a willingness to move from a life that is centred in itself. So if we are to pass out of that lonely world of isolation then we must be prepared to take the risks that are always involved when we allow persons to confront us as persons and do not regard them as things. Yet, dangerous though it may be to live in this way, it is the only way to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presidential vote in Peru is a matter of deep concern to us all, ... Left unexamined, it will certainly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presidential vote in Peru is a matter of deep concern to us all, ... Left unexamined, it will certainly diminish the credibility of this organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65747]]></link><description><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is what he thinks about all day long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is what he thinks about all day long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality and invented no new kind of Deity could not be more laughably wide of the mark. What it did was to guarantee that the old morality was actually valid, and the old beliefs literally true. "Ye worship ye know not what, but we know what we worship," "that which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have handled" -- "He suffered under Pontius Pilate." God died -- not in a legend, not in a symbol, not in a distant past nor in a realm unknown, but here, [in the crucifiction of Christ]; the whole great cloudy castle of natural religion and poetic prophecy is brought down to earth and firmly cemented upon that angular and solid cornerstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise.    Wake the power within thee slumbering,     Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,      Thou wilt bless the task when reaping       Sweet labour's prize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to get that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to act as if we can live apart from each other. To me that's the tragedy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to act as if we can live apart from each other. To me that's the tragedy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our pride and joy, right here. There's Butter Crunch (lettuce) on the right, spinach in the middle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38146]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our pride and joy, right here. There's Butter Crunch (lettuce) on the right, spinach in the middle and the remains of the Black-Seeded Simpson (leaf lettuce) on the left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12290</guid></item></channel></rss>