<?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[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60486</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[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54388]]></link><description><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65065]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where were you fellows when the paper was blank? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where were you fellows when the paper was blank?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!  Without a mark, without a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!  Without a mark, without a bound,   It runneth the earth's wide regions round;    It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;     Or like a cradled creature lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one--  And those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56759]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one--  And those who live as models for the mass   Are singly of more value than they all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21971]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25061]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46927</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers [on the Net] by the end of December 2000, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers [on the Net] by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   And a star or two beside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43897]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,  And for his false opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44935]]></link><description><![CDATA[With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,  And for his false opinion pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next way home's the farthest way about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next way home's the farthest way about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you overall how we stand. Based on the information we receive, we'll build contingency plans off that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you overall how we stand. Based on the information we receive, we'll build contingency plans off that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4426]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1371]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60585]]></link><description><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49310]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping ain't no joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping ain't no joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65493</guid></item></channel></rss>