<?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[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16198]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3660</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[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching. And until we understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching. And until we understand the Gospel, the good news about our brother-king -- until we understand Him, until we have His Spirit, promised so freely to them that ask it -- all the Epistles, the words of men who were full of Him, and wrote out of that fullness, who loved Him so utterly that by that very love they were lifted into the air of pure reason and right, and would die for Him, without two thoughts about it, in the very simplicity of no choice -- the Letters, I say, of such men are to us a sealed book. Until we love the Lord so as to do what He tells us, we have no right to an opinion about what one of those men meant; for all they wrote is about things beyond us. The simplest woman who tries not to judge her neighbor, or not to be anxious for the morrow, will better know what is best to know, than the best-read bishop without that one simple outgoing of his highest nature in the effort to do the will of Him who thus spoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49333]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is somewhat volatile now, so we're passive about getting new stock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is somewhat volatile now, so we're passive about getting new stock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4499]]></link><description><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heating season is not over, but for today, it's a decrease of significant proportion and that makes it a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heating season is not over, but for today, it's a decrease of significant proportion and that makes it a good day for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care how it turns out now. I couldn't have asked them to play any better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care how it turns out now. I couldn't have asked them to play any better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24257]]></link><description><![CDATA[No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31022</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[Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And dry the moistened curls that overspread   His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22634]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  Those who think God did this almost incredible thing call it Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  Those who think God did this almost incredible thing call it Good Friday because only an extremely good God could do a thing like that. All religions attempt to bridge the gulf between the terrific purity of God and the sinfulness of man, but Christianity believes that God built that bridge Himself. This particular Friday commemorates His deliberate action in allowing Himself to be caught up in the sin-suffering-death mechanism which haunts mankind. He didn't let it end there, for He went on, right through death. But the men who believe in Him can't forget the kind of Person such an act reveals. That's why they call it Good Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt,   Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to editing scientific information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38325]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely don't believe that this was an accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36652]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely don't believe that this was an accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out. Those who suffer most cry out the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1538</guid></item></channel></rss>