<?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[An idea is the only level which moves the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9405]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is the only level which moves the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight a few weeks ago but the market responded and that's no longer the case. We are also getting closer to the end of winter and it's clear gas and heating-oil stocks will be sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give me a thousand kisses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5746]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13832]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way to break the ice is with a sense of humor. Not making light of it, but using it to break the ice. Personality and having a sense of humor helps generate people's interest and puts them at a sense of ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26227]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will result in the creation of a powerful base for further development in the sector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30093]]></link><description><![CDATA[will result in the creation of a powerful base for further development in the sector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires more courage to suffer than to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56112]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38627]]></link><description><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our debt by more than $430 million,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well done is better than well said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well done is better than well said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43246]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33810]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third floor suffered extensive fire damage and is a total loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need my space and that's what they're saying -- 'I'd like to have my space,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need my space and that's what they're saying -- 'I'd like to have my space,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61740]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want to pick a family that just created a fund they don't have a history in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35356]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want to pick a family that just created a fund they don't have a history in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18894]]></link><description><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master loves to be aloft   And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12030]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get back, let's retake the CBC, make it what it can be - a great public broadcaster for all Canadians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245]]></link><description><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. You have to be really excited and energetic and able to pump people up, ... I'll dance and scream and do cheers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls   Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;    Pillars and doors all were of brass;     Windows of latten were set with glass;      It was so rich in many wise,       That it was like a paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25975</guid></item></channel></rss>