<?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[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17377]]></link><description><![CDATA[And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34730]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because of the cool-down in the housing market. We won't need as many construction workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55586]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that once hitts, is ever bending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that once hitts, is ever bending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy  Hidden in sorrow: at first to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy  Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear   The warble was low, and full and clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was on the last night of His life, when His enemies were all around Him, that He spoke to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7154]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was on the last night of His life, when His enemies were all around Him, that He spoke to His disciples of the joy that no man taketh away. Read again the story of His Passion: Jesus is seen throughout as calm, quiet, and confident. His last word is, "Father, into Thy hands I commit my spirit". Someone may say, "Yes, but He knew that He was going to rise from the dead." But have we not the same promise for ourselves? [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hereby resign this office of president of the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5391</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 volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11107]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our business solution in place we are far ahead of any alliance competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36815]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our business solution in place we are far ahead of any alliance competitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a man; nothing human is alien to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25698]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34603]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first thought to go to the post office for that kind of service,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have other fish to fry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have other fish to fry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. [Lat., Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium  Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,   The title is affeered!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45633]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this respect, I have called before these attacks for halting these operations so that people will not believe the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this respect, I have called before these attacks for halting these operations so that people will not believe the attacks are aimed at preventing them from participating in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35493]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to have won it at home, but to win it there was special, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25582]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides,  Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47858]]></link><description><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea   Till that the weary very means do ebb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33517]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we got burned on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For your heart is your life, and your life can only be altered by that which is the real working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7075]]></link><description><![CDATA[For your heart is your life, and your life can only be altered by that which is the real working of your heart. And if your prayer is only a form of words, made by the skill of other people, such a prayer can no more change you into a good man, than an actor upon the stage, who speaks kingly language, is thereby made to be a king: whereas one thought, or word, or look, towards God, proceeding from your own heart, can never be without its proper fruit, or fail of doing a real good to your soul. Again, another great and infallible benefit of this kind of prayer is this; it is the only way to be delivered from the deceitfulness of your own hearts. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7075</guid></item></channel></rss>