<?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 submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45646]]></link><description><![CDATA[He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss me and you will see how important I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kiss me and you will see how important I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23861</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[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would like to understand how hair cells work, why they are vulnerable and why in mammals hair cells do not regenerate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47400]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66393]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the Wine-JarAn old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the Wine-JarAn old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, O most delicious! How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume! The memory of a good deed lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62485]]></link><description><![CDATA[At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the rest to the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the rest to the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be redeemed by a power outside himself. I do not regard the over-determined "optimists" as silly; they seem to me only the victims of a wishful thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum  Quaerere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we'd be decent. But we've been better than I thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32829]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we'd be decent. But we've been better than I thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46824]]></link><description><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is just red sweat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is just red sweat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His work was strong and clean and fine,    And none who served at Crispin's shrine     Was at his trade more clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8682]]></link><description><![CDATA[As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55204]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began,  When wild in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began,  When wild in woods the noble savage ran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snows at sea.. quiet.... falls in flakes * melting designs**leave form for All. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snows at sea.. quiet.... falls in flakes * melting designs**leave form for All.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26108]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,   Che la facesse di menzogna rea.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18340]]></link><description><![CDATA[What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just who he is. That's what he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41349]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just who he is. That's what he does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  The indwelling of Christ's Spirit means not only moral discernment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  The indwelling of Christ's Spirit means not only moral discernment but moral power. Paul's count against the Law is that it was impotent through the flesh. Against this impotence Paul sets the ethical competence of the Spirit. "I can do anything in Him who makes me strong," (Phil. 4:13) he exclaims. For his friends in Asia he prays "that God may grant you, according to the wealth of His splendour, to be made strong with power through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your trust in Him." (Eph. 3:16-17) This is the antithesis of the dismal picture presented in Romans 7, and it comes, just as evidently as that, out of experience. Indeed, we may say that the thing above all which distinguished the early Christian community from its environment was the moral competence of its members. In order to maintain this we need not idealize unduly the early Christians. There were sins and scandals at Corinth and Ephesus, but it was impossible to miss the note of genuine power of renewal and recuperation -- the power of the simple person progressively to approximate to his moral ideals in spite of failures. The very fact that the term "Spirit" is used points to a sense of something essentially "supernatural" in such ethical attainments. For the primitive Christians the Spirit was manifested in what they regarded as miraculous. Paul does not whittle away the miraculous sense when he transfers it to the moral sphere. He concentrates attention on the moral miracle as something more wonderful far than any "speaking with tongues." So fully convinced is he of the new and miraculous nature of this moral power that he can regard the Christian as a "new creation." (II Cor. 5:17) This is not the old person at all: it is a "new man," "created in Christ Jesus for good deeds." (Eph. 2:10) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48363]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No legacy is so rich as honesty. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55726]]></link><description><![CDATA[No legacy is so rich as honesty. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24228</guid></item></channel></rss>