<?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[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001</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[School districts are more clever than any legislator who can put this into existence. [Districts] can spin the data any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37534]]></link><description><![CDATA[School districts are more clever than any legislator who can put this into existence. [Districts] can spin the data any way they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is definitely a big catch, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34268]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is definitely a big catch,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[then reversed and ran over her again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36654]]></link><description><![CDATA[then reversed and ran over her again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5484]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn child here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43262]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905]]></link><description><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish could be removed from the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before mid-October it will be up and running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before mid-October it will be up and running.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28789]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have to challenge. Finding the balance is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with regard to it? On which side shall we stand?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61431]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to be able to contribute on a senior-dominated team. I just got some openings and made some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to be able to contribute on a senior-dominated team. I just got some openings and made some shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16830]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33150]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of those deals.' I said I understand. We've been good friends for a lot of years. I think he's a quality individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus' good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus' good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God had come, and that he, Jesus, was its herald and expounder to men. More than that, in some special and mysterious was, he was the kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26506]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hollywood featured in 'Going Hollywood' is a place few have seen, and is a refreshing take on what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hollywood featured in 'Going Hollywood' is a place few have seen, and is a refreshing take on what we all believe constitutes 'celebrity,' ... Beyond the glamorous premieres and jet-set travel is a world where grit, ambition and, above all, hard work, are the stuff that dreams are made of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently broad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently broad, clear and uncoerced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â he is mentally committed to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29744]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â he is mentally committed to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through all the weary hours,   And meeting strangely at one sudden goal,    Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,     Into one beautiful and perfect whole;      And life's long night is ended, and the way       Lies open onward to eternal day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King has become a failure in his mission for which he had assumed power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King has become a failure in his mission for which he had assumed power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is gold which is worth gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17773]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is gold which is worth gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy;   For your own reasons turn into your bosoms    As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26239]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people totreat you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people totreat you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give,   And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56060</guid></item></channel></rss>