<?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[Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the greatest refreshment in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I was going off all by myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach always preaches to us, get ahead, get ahead, make something happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach always preaches to us, get ahead, get ahead, make something happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like we're bringing them some obscure things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61151]]></link><description><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43612</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[Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators,  God tailor and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators,  God tailor and god mercer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47395]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really a robust mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really a robust mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got our composure back. Last week, we missed a lot of tackles. This week, we got them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37437]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got our composure back. Last week, we missed a lot of tackles. This week, we got them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!  What freezings have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/159]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!  What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!   What old December's bareness everywhere!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our power is in our ability to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our power is in our ability to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5639]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are that which activates the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are that which activates the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61466]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light;  Nature held us forth, and said,   "Lo! my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light;  Nature held us forth, and said,   "Lo! my thoughts of white."   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it is any surprise to anybody because everyone who has talked to me since I resigned said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it is any surprise to anybody because everyone who has talked to me since I resigned said they understand that there is a pervasive negative attitude in the county, ... There is a lot of criticism. The focus seems to be on criticizing county government as opposed to, at least sometimes, looking at the good things that are going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39149]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a tears bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a tears bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A savior of the silver-coasted isle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45820]]></link><description><![CDATA[A savior of the silver-coasted isle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47331]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13887</guid></item></channel></rss>