<?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[We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something is the right thing for you to dosome will call your action 'courage.'There is a good possibility you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34406]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something is the right thing for you to dosome will call your action 'courage.'There is a good possibility you will likely call it'being myself.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27566]]></link><description><![CDATA[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire, is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59955]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65359]]></link><description><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,-- You'll never see him more;  He used to wear a long brown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,-- You'll never see him more;  He used to wear a long brown coat   That buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38302]]></link><description><![CDATA[May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know what you can get away with until you try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know what you can get away with until you try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just slipped. It was a little wet, and I couldn't dig in. But, I should have made the play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just slipped. It was a little wet, and I couldn't dig in. But, I should have made the play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city was extremely helpful. The Planning Department ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â they really walked us through (the process). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city was extremely helpful. The Planning Department ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â they really walked us through (the process).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Visa Waiver Program is one that we've been working on even prior to the bombings in London, taking more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Visa Waiver Program is one that we've been working on even prior to the bombings in London, taking more precautions as far as making sure there are secured documents for all these people coming through the Visa Waiver Program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46034]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the highways on the Internet become more few? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the highways on the Internet become more few?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38490</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[Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committeefor an animal adapted to communities without water..it was a divine consensus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey me"; but not: "My will does not obey me".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.   - Sir Humphrey Davy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54814]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.   - Sir Humphrey Davy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 10 years. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35291]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 10 years. So, there's a lot of debate about the use of that money. And, of course, there's some debate about leasing the toll road itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. The trick is to find the brands that are unique, but not so niche and so in-the-know that only 12 people who live in the neighborhood will get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25502]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man does nothing by constraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48825]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man does nothing by constraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30983]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is our core player. She brings incredible energy, and we love playing with her and with her energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34662]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is our core player. She brings incredible energy, and we love playing with her and with her energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He warmes too neere that burnes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49418]]></link><description><![CDATA[He warmes too neere that burnes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands   That calumny doth use--O, I am out,    That mercy does, for calumny will sear     Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,      When you have said she's goodly, come between       Ere you can say she's honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing recedes like success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing recedes like success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing and think another!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify the means used thereunto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law, without force, is impotent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law, without force, is impotent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48618]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65621]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26604]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26604</guid></item></channel></rss>