<?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[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54482]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until people stop burning, it's going to keep going up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until people stop burning, it's going to keep going up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16015]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66826]]></link><description><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,   The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game just came to me. I just relaxed a little bit and let it come to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game just came to me. I just relaxed a little bit and let it come to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise undeserved s satire in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/189]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel has opened the gates to hell by assassinating one of our leaders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel has opened the gates to hell by assassinating one of our leaders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45184]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49803</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[We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30064]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair  It has mantled a world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54084]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Love is Immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20590]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Love is Immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond the Alps lies Italy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond the Alps lies Italy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're devoted to giving children a chance to have a full camp experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31130]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're devoted to giving children a chance to have a full camp experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,--"orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12638]]></link><description><![CDATA["Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,--"orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who comes to the show should have an open mind. It's kind of different. Take your expectations of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who comes to the show should have an open mind. It's kind of different. Take your expectations of a magic show, and forget them. This will change them. People have preconceived notions of what a magic show should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not remember days; we remember moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27764]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not remember days; we remember moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27804]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leap year Is never a good sheep year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56162]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leap year Is never a good sheep year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34514</guid></item></channel></rss>