<?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 Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their user was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24857]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44529]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,   Seeming with bright eyes to listen-    For what listen they?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57344]]></link><description><![CDATA[For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One religion is as true as another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53470]]></link><description><![CDATA[One religion is as true as another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44784]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore are these things hid? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore are these things hid? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9523]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ear of jealousy heareth all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ear of jealousy heareth all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just needed help with learning how to care for children with special needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just needed help with learning how to care for children with special needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44351]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. [Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15348]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61436]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is on inflation watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is on inflation watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The muscles built up by my system aren't the kind that turn into knots of gristle after middle age and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The muscles built up by my system aren't the kind that turn into knots of gristle after middle age and give their owner rheumatic misery, which is generally the ultimate payoff for super athletes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43985]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37584]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64437]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64519]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The specialty egg segment has grown dramatically in the last eight or nine years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The specialty egg segment has grown dramatically in the last eight or nine years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35488]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew we would have to play a lot better than we did there. Our post players came up really big. It went exactly the way I thought it would except for the last five or six minutes, considering the kind of week we had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35488</guid></item></channel></rss>