<?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[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   Bright prototypes on high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10994</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[Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60008</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[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?   Reply, reply.    It is engend'red in the eyes,     With gazing fed, and fancy dies      In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, and thank God that we are not as other men. We don't despise God's name; in fact, we call upon it constantly to justify ourselves... If we object to meat-eating, we declare that God is vegetarian; if we abhor war, we proclaim a pacifist Deity. He who turned water into wine to gladden a wedding it now accused by many of favouring that abominable fluid grape juice. There can hardly be a more evil way of taking God's name in vain than this way of presuming to speak in it. For here is spiritual pride, the ultimate sin, in action -- the sin of believing in one's own righteousness. The true prophet says humbly, "To me, a sinful man, God spoke." But the scribes and Pharisees declare, "When we speak, God agrees." They feel no need of a special revelation, for they are always, in their own view, infallible. It is this self-righteousness of the pious that most breeds atheism, by inspiring all decent, ordinary men with loathing of the enormous lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since that the truest issue of thy throne    By his own interdiction stands accursed     And does blaspheme his breed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1250]]></link><description><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die Fulle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most unglamorous picture of war I've ever read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most unglamorous picture of war I've ever read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the food unpriced,   Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The borough has labor counsel and labor counsel is not here, so we are not in a position to respond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The borough has labor counsel and labor counsel is not here, so we are not in a position to respond to the offer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime of golf. That's the highest praise I can give anyone, to compare him to Jack Nicklaus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45510]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37920]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a championship, you've got to be solid, tough and physical defensively and I don't think we were that, especially in the last 10 minutes of that game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53968]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52474]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43562]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful power to prevent attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12392]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been no more than a medium, as it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been no more than a medium, as it were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a quintuple bypass in May. It was notMad Cows but sane cows in my arteries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a quintuple bypass in May. It was notMad Cows but sane cows in my arteries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12445</guid></item></channel></rss>