<?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[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above the smiles and frowns of fate   Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth    That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how he could have played much better. He has proven why he is an All-American. He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how he could have played much better. He has proven why he is an All-American. He is certainly the best second team All-ACC player that I've seen. He has played super all year giving us a stabilizing, veteran presence in the middle of a young defensive line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and I have a hunch that [husband] Blake [Edwards] has got something up his sleeve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39320]]></link><description><![CDATA[and I have a hunch that [husband] Blake [Edwards] has got something up his sleeve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this country through these very dangerous areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66271]]></link><description><![CDATA[What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reach for the moon, because if you don't make it you'll land among the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reach for the moon, because if you don't make it you'll land among the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael had one of his best years in many ways, although the fumbles were a great negative to the team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael had one of his best years in many ways, although the fumbles were a great negative to the team. He took it quite personally, and he's done a very good job of working on everything this offseason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11347]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And a few Friends, and many Books both true,   Both wise, and both delightful too.    And since Love ne'er will from me flee,     A mistress moderately fair,      And good as Guardian angels are,       Only belov'd and loving me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  In our praying, we should speak to God about Himself -- that is praise; or about His gifts--that is thanksgiving; or about other people -- that is intercession; or about our sins--that is confession and penitence; or about our needs--that is petition. Prayer has five fingers, like a hand, and each in turn must be pointed to God, that our prayer may be full and complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53411</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[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33712]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-old woman, you think youth doesn't end until 57.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly impressed, for asking them to make a change in two weeks. It was a great job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make alongthe way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22239]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make alongthe way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16419]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19476]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65042]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37141]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was pretty upset. I did get to talk to her in the ambulance, so that made things better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations are still going on. Everybody was there. This is a good sign and we hope we will reach a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations are still going on. Everybody was there. This is a good sign and we hope we will reach a result tomorrow night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230]]></link><description><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're confident that Floridians support our positions and that's been reflected in our fund raising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're confident that Floridians support our positions and that's been reflected in our fund raising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An accountant is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48329]]></link><description><![CDATA[An accountant is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to bayonet the wounded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3060</guid></item></channel></rss>