<?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 King is dead! Long live the King! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King is dead! Long live the King!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor   E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.    To hover as the thunder's neighbor,     The very firmament explore.      To be a voice as from above       Like yonder stars so bright and clear,        That praise their Maker as they move,         And usher in the circling year.          Tun'd be its metal mouth alone           To things eternal and sublime.            And as the swift wing'd hours speed on             May it record the flight of time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played our best game of the year tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played our best game of the year tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met with Coach Bowden and he gave me some good information. I believe another year will also give me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met with Coach Bowden and he gave me some good information. I believe another year will also give me a chance to be a higher draft choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;  But in their books, as from their graves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;  But in their books, as from their graves they rise.   Angels--that, side by side, upon our way,    Walk with and warn us!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64264]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not often you get a tie in swimming. But it was a good meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not often you get a tie in swimming. But it was a good meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49030]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,and just before you realize what's wrong with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,and just before you realize what's wrong with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54753]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us,   And foolish notion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IMS technology will play a big role in determining how communications service providers develop and deploy next-generation networks. The IDC ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38333]]></link><description><![CDATA[IMS technology will play a big role in determining how communications service providers develop and deploy next-generation networks. The IDC Shoot Out on the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor will be a great place to compare the latest IMS products from some of the world's leading technology companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61894</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[Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good mouth-filling oath. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good mouth-filling oath. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25296]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never want to string a game like that together, but it shows so much composure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30746]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never want to string a game like that together, but it shows so much composure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appeal of the Big Bang has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appeal of the Big Bang has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the world - what perfect principles must have been used.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53157]]></link><description><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56841]]></link><description><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male is essentially a female that has been exposed to androgenic steroid hormones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14837]]></link><description><![CDATA[With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a heart breaksit also opens-Jeff Arch- screenwriter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/727]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a heart breaksit also opens-Jeff Arch- screenwriter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/727</guid></item></channel></rss>