<?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[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58522</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[We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot evaluate probabilities. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39083]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot evaluate probabilities. We only work with things that are proven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront the problems of living for Christ in the world, has for generations been taking refuge in an ever more minute study of Christian origins. Theology is less and less about God and God's world, and more and more a department of ancient history, absorbed in minute details of historical and literary criticism. The whole business is wildly out of proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most communities are under the false impression that if a sex offender moves into the neighborhood, law enforcement would knock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most communities are under the false impression that if a sex offender moves into the neighborhood, law enforcement would knock on their door, but that's just not the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price-gouging consumers for essential goods and services by uncaring businesses during this major storm will result in quick action by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price-gouging consumers for essential goods and services by uncaring businesses during this major storm will result in quick action by my office because people could be in dire need and suffering,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63442]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great   In that City of By-and-by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60480]]></link><description><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,   As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few minds wear out; more rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few minds wear out; more rust out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse expetit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25943]]></link><description><![CDATA[However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and denied   That our close kisses should impair their white,--    I know we shall behold them raised, complete,     The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,      New Memnons singing in the great God-light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29699]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sancta Maria ad Nives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sancta Maria ad Nives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More light! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27980]]></link><description><![CDATA[More light!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When (negotiations) broke last night, everybody made sure everyone had everyone's phone numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When (negotiations) broke last night, everybody made sure everyone had everyone's phone numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1067]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess almost invariably overvalue possessions and so cease to live creatively. They stop loving God with all the heart and all the soul and all the strength and all the mind. They stop loving their neighbors, too. When you find a person of means who is not either a self-centered bore or a low person, you may know that God has worked a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I have the chance to be making this team, but I think it's more of a learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I have the chance to be making this team, but I think it's more of a learning experience just going in and having fun and watching the other guys, seeing what they do and just kind of get a feel for what I have to do to get to this level,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56334]]></link><description><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25265]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25612]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied,   Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide,    As if old Drums, worn out with martial din,     Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded. Of course, it would've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40103]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded. Of course, it would've been more fun if we'd had a rider in the break, but I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that we had three guys in the second group with all the big favourites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257</guid></item></channel></rss>