<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18244</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/9596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa's bowling attack has been exposed as being toothless, and it certainly lacks a cutting edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38995]]></link><description><![CDATA[South Africa's bowling attack has been exposed as being toothless, and it certainly lacks a cutting edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,   To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd    Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no time to finding fault of criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no time to finding fault of criticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37166]]></link><description><![CDATA[This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry Bonds, in the presence of legends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a big thrill not only for our boys, but for the families. And we are all so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40111]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a big thrill not only for our boys, but for the families. And we are all so grateful for the opportunity. These boys are growing up right before our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41140]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were professional-looking. There were a few ball-strike calls I didn't like, but that's going to happen in the big leagues or anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew about their protest and had taken precautionary steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew about their protest and had taken precautionary steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!  Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!  Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath,   He's stampin', and he's jumpin'!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4920]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a system that worked and we worked it, ... We'd go into a place and create a riot. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a system that worked and we worked it, ... We'd go into a place and create a riot. When you could keep them out of their chairs, that's when you knew you won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and lost   That never to have fought at all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clyde was just unconscious tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clyde was just unconscious tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) inorder to guarantee your future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) inorder to guarantee your future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the repairs are made, we will turn them back on. This is extremely unusual, and we are really looking into what exactly caused that ignition, but we just won't know for some time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I came here I barely thought I would play as a freshman, ... But some people got hurt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39065]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I came here I barely thought I would play as a freshman, ... But some people got hurt and luckily I got to go in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47312]]></link><description><![CDATA[While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63880]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We use all fresh, never frozen ingredients. We use classic cooking methods and it's all in front of our customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31668]]></link><description><![CDATA[We use all fresh, never frozen ingredients. We use classic cooking methods and it's all in front of our customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49320]]></link><description><![CDATA[He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should think your tongue has broken its chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should think your tongue has broken its chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love that is not madness is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love that is not madness is not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last two years it has been working for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last two years it has been working for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24951</guid></item></channel></rss>