<?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[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52695]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62044]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a game like this, you want to dominate the boards, you want to limit your turnovers and you want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33393]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a game like this, you want to dominate the boards, you want to limit your turnovers and you want to make good shot selections. We talked about that before the game and we talked about it yesterday at practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50919]]></link><description><![CDATA[All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  We might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  We might have said beforehand, if we had been told that God was coming into a man's life, ... "That must be something very terrible and awful. That certainly must rend and tear the life to which God comes. At least, it will separate it and make it unnatural and strange. God fills a bush with His glory and it burns. God enters into the great mountain, and it rocks with earthquake. When he comes to occupy a man, He must distort the humanity which He occupies into some inhuman shape." Instead of that, this new life into which God comes, seems to be the most quietly, naturally human life that was ever seen upon the earth. It glides into its place like sunlight. It seems to make it evident that God and man are essentially so near together, that the meeting of their natures in the life of a God-man is not strange. So always does Christ deal with His own nature, accepting His Divinity as you and I accept our humanity, and letting it shine out through the envelope with which it has most subtly and mysteriously mingled, as the soul is mingled with and shines out through the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves- and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5871]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45184]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,  Longing to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,  Longing to see the charmed door of dreams   Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: The day of resurrection! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad; The passover of gladness,  The passover of God. From death to life eternal, From this world to the sky, Our Christ hath brought us over With hymns of victory. Our hearts be pure from evil, That we may see aright The Lord in rays eternal Of resurrection light, And, list'ning to His accents, May hear, so calm and plain His own "All hail!" and, hearing, May raise the victor strain. Now let the heav'ns be joyful, Let earth her song begin, Let the round world keep triumph And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend; For Christ the Lord has risen -- Our Joy that has no end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor is not always wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor is not always wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19471]]></link><description><![CDATA[History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man could have of his own, then we should have to concern ourselves with the question of how it can be imparted to him. But there is not. The idea of a righteousness of one's own is the quintessence of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3577]]></link><description><![CDATA["I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20799]]></link><description><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49256]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49256</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[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss may ruin a human life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23858]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss may ruin a human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18751</guid></item></channel></rss>