<?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[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you can really get through to them is TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They live in their cars. They're setting up tents on the beach again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37610]]></link><description><![CDATA[They live in their cars. They're setting up tents on the beach again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51989]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,   Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education and our future. If we're not going to school, what's the point of all this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Your problem isn't karma, Sheldon, it's attitude!" "Well, Lonnie, maybe it's attitudinal karma !" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23683]]></link><description><![CDATA["Your problem isn't karma, Sheldon, it's attitude!" "Well, Lonnie, maybe it's attitudinal karma !"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  I too had noticed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  I too had noticed that our prayers for others flow more easily than those we offer on our own behalf. And it would be nice to accept your view that this just shows we are made to live by charity. I'm afraid, however, I detect two much less attractive reasons for the ease of my own intercessory prayers. One is that I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him. And the other is like unto it. Suppose I pray that you may be given grace to withstand your besetting sin (short list of candidates for this post will be forwarded on demand). Well, all the work has to be done by God and you. If I pray against my own besetting sin there will be work for me. One sometimes fights shy of admitting an act to be a sin for this very reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591</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[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreathsRise from the hearthstones of our native hamletsCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66782]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66782</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[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra   Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out swinging today and it paid off. We have a few guys in the middle of the lineup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out swinging today and it paid off. We have a few guys in the middle of the lineup who can take the ball deep; that pitch that Turner hit got up in the jet stream and just took off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vice is a failure of desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vice is a failure of desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God throws the dice are loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26029]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God throws the dice are loaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized that I was very attracted to her, and there was no point for my delaying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized that I was very attracted to her, and there was no point for my delaying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27045]]></link><description><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse;  On horror's head horrors accumulate; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse;  On horror's head horrors accumulate;   Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;    For nothing canst thou to damnation add     Greater than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam   The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--    A home, if such a place may be,     For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,      On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,       And only seeketh her rocky lair        To warm her young and to teach them spring         At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15883]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crab and Its MotherA crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Crab and Its MotherA crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward. The young Crab replied: Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it. The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child. Example is more powerful than precept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33558]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had to practically drag the kids out of there to let another group in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40747]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had to practically drag the kids out of there to let another group in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40747</guid></item></channel></rss>