<?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[Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37790]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet. Cherish them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are punished by our sins, not for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64731]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are punished by our sins, not for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31518]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and let the defense do the work for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was our do-everything player. She was our best defender. She guarded the best players on the teams we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was our do-everything player. She was our best defender. She guarded the best players on the teams we played . . . and she did an outstanding job. She was our on-the-court leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16558]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only words...unless they're true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only words...unless they're true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3914]]></link><description><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From every opening flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61602]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame, But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame, But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God help you if you are an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48182]]></link><description><![CDATA[God help you if you are an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to play with your head and your heart. You can't play with one or the other, or you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37606]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to play with your head and your heart. You can't play with one or the other, or you'll get killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played our best game of the year tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played our best game of the year tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were leading Toms River South after the first quarter. It was a depth thing. They had the depth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were leading Toms River South after the first quarter. It was a depth thing. They had the depth and were fresh in the third quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23260]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4957]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of running when we are on the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62449]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people coming in... housing going up like crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, we had a shortage of 2-year-old birds from the poor hatch in 2003, so we didn't have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, we had a shortage of 2-year-old birds from the poor hatch in 2003, so we didn't have a surplus of those birds to carry over. The fact that there was a shortage of 2-year-olds to hunt last year meant more pressure on the older birds, so that cuts down the carry over on those, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chivalry's dead, sugar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chivalry's dead, sugar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, but I love myself more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, but I love myself more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66668]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3772</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[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59860</guid></item></channel></rss>