<?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[We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59892]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are cold, tea will warm you; If you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are cold, tea will warm you; If you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5757]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21299]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52900]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59975]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along,the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass,thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect forhimself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refusedto move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid hiswhip lustily about his shoulders and said, O you perversedull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to anAss. They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6680]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of bliss, To this darksome wilderness. He has come! the Prince of Peace; Come to bid our sorrows cease; Come to scatter with His light All the darkness of our night. He, the Mighty King, has come! Making this poor world His home; Come to bear our sin's sad load,-- Son of David, Son of God! He has come whose name of grace Speaks deliverance to our race; Left for us His glad abode,-- Son of Mary, Son of God! Unto us a Child is born! Ne'er has earth beheld a morn, Among all the morns of time, Half so glorious in its prime! Unto us a Son is given! He has come from God's own heaven, Bringing with Him, from above, Holy peace and holy love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay, And taught him when to be reserved or free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48743]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay, And taught him when to be reserved or free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is rhythm and meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is rhythm and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed?  Of use thou'dst, then, be truly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed?  Of use thou'dst, then, be truly,   For asses might upon thee feed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing against that type of speed, we learned that we can move the ball if we execute. We've just got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing against that type of speed, we learned that we can move the ball if we execute. We've just got to be more fundamentally sound on the defensive side of the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14900]]></link><description><![CDATA[A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44772]]></link><description><![CDATA[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise   And very few to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty stream of tendency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty stream of tendency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[at the core of what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37198]]></link><description><![CDATA[at the core of what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have eight new positions (to fill), and we're just learning as we go. They're catching on fast. We've just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have eight new positions (to fill), and we're just learning as we go. They're catching on fast. We've just got to get some more practices in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085]]></link><description><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam   That through his lattice peeped derisively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I still miss it. Once I saw that baseball could maybe take me somewhere, I decided to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Commission concludes that there is still a high level of concentration in the enterprise market in most areas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Commission concludes that there is still a high level of concentration in the enterprise market in most areas of the country today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15190]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be short practice time. It might put us at a disadvantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska  Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. •Jeff Raskin   Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. •Anonymous   The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." •Leon Lanthier   Computers are useless - they only give you answers. •Pablo Picasso   "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. •J. H. Goldfuss   No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. •John Ruskin   All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. •Anonymous  Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. •James Magary  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. •E W Dijkstra  Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. •Popular Mechanics, 1949  Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. •Andy Rooney  Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. •Edward Shepherd Mead  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. •John Gall   There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. •Bill Gates  If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. •Bill Gates  Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. •MG Siriam   Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. •Tom Fasulo   Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. •William Gibson   URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. •Chris Clark   My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. •Penn Jillett   We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. •Robert Wilensky   It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. •Denise Caruso   Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! •Homer Simpson  Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. •Scott Adams  I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. •Isaac Asimov   Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. •Rich Cook   If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. •Robert Cringely   I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. •Steve Jobs   The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. •Porterfield   People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. •Anonymous  Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. •Anonymous  But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. •Bruce Leverett  Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32273]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18604]]></link><description><![CDATA[People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sucker born every minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sucker born every minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light,   And wish that thou wert by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/150</guid></item></channel></rss>