<?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[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47090]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing a lot of new buying of the Canadian dollar. The central bank continues to tighten and everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34917]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing a lot of new buying of the Canadian dollar. The central bank continues to tighten and everyone is talking about the election. We expect continued strength in the Canadian dollar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need:  Pepper and vinegar besides   Are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need:  Pepper and vinegar besides   Are very good indeed--    Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear,     We can begin to feed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. Itwill get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. Itwill get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your wholelife be a revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37038]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been fortunate to pick up where we left off last year. Hopefully we can keep working hard and keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been fortunate to pick up where we left off last year. Hopefully we can keep working hard and keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16184]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be real big. Ten wins is a nice number. That is what we are shooting for. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41793]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be real big. Ten wins is a nice number. That is what we are shooting for. We had two losses at the end of the season. We want to bounce back and get those 10 wins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;  The relics of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12803]]></link><description><![CDATA[As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;  The relics of mankind, secure at rest,   Open every window to receive the guest,    And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19451]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waight and measure take away strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waight and measure take away strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;  Never a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;  Never a groan but God has harkened,   Counting their cruelties one by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32455]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such root she took,   And--like a sunflower by a brook,    With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27400]]></link><description><![CDATA[True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44175]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330   Wherever we turn in the church of God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330   Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle, and end of everything to us... There is nothing good, nothing holy, nothing beautiful, nothing joyous, which He is not to His servants. No one need be poor, because, if he chooses, he can have Jesus for his own property and possession. No one need be downcast, for Jesus is the joy of heaven, and it is His joy to enter into sorrowful hearts. We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus., or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that night be said of Him. Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to praise Him for all He has done -- but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  Life is at its noblest and its best when our effort cooperates with God's grace to produce the necessary loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811</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[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury poisoning aren’t real. No, lobbyists for the big industries just say they can’t afford to make changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward yourgoals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem. . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17701]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54179</guid></item></channel></rss>