<?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[Every good painter paints what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good painter paints what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11518]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise.    Wake the power within thee slumbering,     Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,      Thou wilt bless the task when reaping       Sweet labour's prize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valuations remain a little stretched, and we could see some further weakness into the early part of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valuations remain a little stretched, and we could see some further weakness into the early part of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No lock will hold against the power of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49651]]></link><description><![CDATA[No lock will hold against the power of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a gaming environment anywhere where you can have those restrictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a gaming environment anywhere where you can have those restrictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16532]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it  By their examples of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it  By their examples of true Christianity:   In short, all know, or very short may know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing tenacious defense, predicated on great guard play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41341</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[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46521]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I'll take away the most from today is that you learn from your mistakes. Mistakes and hard lessons make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34666]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I'll take away the most from today is that you learn from your mistakes. Mistakes and hard lessons make you appreciate life more. That's how I think, and I was glad to hear that. I don't regret anything I've done because of that way of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29840]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47405]]></link><description><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning makes an experience more positive. We played with some positive energy today, and with some intensity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning makes an experience more positive. We played with some positive energy today, and with some intensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that it's terribly disappointing. We'll try to eradicate this, and we'll take strong internal action against the transgressors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle will fall,   Down comes the baby, cradle and all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By all means, slow down. The roads are either wet, snow- covered or slushy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31865]]></link><description><![CDATA[By all means, slow down. The roads are either wet, snow- covered or slushy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All told, I consider my constitution a child on the verge of death, from which you can transplant some organs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35813]]></link><description><![CDATA[All told, I consider my constitution a child on the verge of death, from which you can transplant some organs into the Treaty of Nice,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16562]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60111]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste cannot be controlled by law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste cannot be controlled by law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5502]]></link><description><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world order, except the Arab world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Molly is an awesome player. It's a fun thing just to watch her play. We made sure there was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Molly is an awesome player. It's a fun thing just to watch her play. We made sure there was always someone marking her. Getting the lead allowed us a little more latitude, but we had to play full out for 80 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45607</guid></item></channel></rss>