<?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[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60055]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1801]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62679]]></link><description><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock is extremely accurate and not easily changed. In a way, their brains are trying very hard to go back to sleep in the mornings."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you 'll start having positive results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you 'll start having positive results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come like shadows, so depart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come like shadows, so depart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in-kind contribution. The party will pay for the costs incurred. It's unfortunate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30950]]></link><description><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in-kind contribution. The party will pay for the costs incurred. It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41286]]></link><description><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person having more knowledge will have an impressive frame of mind, whereas a person having wisdom will have an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62983]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person having more knowledge will have an impressive frame of mind, whereas a person having wisdom will have an expressive frame of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51727</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[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are awesome players and good athletes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring wecall luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring wecall luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64282]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23292]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O’Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O’Neill meet the President, and we did everything we could do to boost his group]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27671]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's their last match. They're going out there and dominating and we're going to step it up here the next couple weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51443]]></link><description><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below,   Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the patient wanted -- that's why this case is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be revealed if once we see free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves. You cannot fancy a more skeptical world than that in which men doubt whether there is a world. It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretense that modern England is Christian. But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year I had them play doubles at tournaments, (and during conference matches) I put them at one and two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year I had them play doubles at tournaments, (and during conference matches) I put them at one and two singles. That was the best way to get success, I put our four best kids in the top four spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its presentperfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfectand not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and Iam not deficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25963]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25963</guid></item></channel></rss>