<?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[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  "Secret" sins, such as are not known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  "Secret" sins, such as are not known to be sins (it may be) to ourselves, make way for those that are "presumptuous". Thus pride may seem to be nothing but a frame of mind belonging unto our wealth and dignity, or our ... abilities; sensuality may seem to be but a lawful participation of the good things of this life; passion and peevishness, but a due sense of the want of respect that we must suppose owing unto us; covetousness, a necessary care of ourselves and of our families. If the seeds of sin are covered with such pretences, they will in time spring up and bear bitter fruit in the minds and the lives of men; and the beginning of all apostasy, both in religion and in morality, lies in just such pretences. Men plead that they can do so-and-so lawfully, until they can do things openly unlawful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40051]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/470]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48173]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16559]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take up the White Man's burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take up the White Man's burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abuse of these laws is not only the worry of Muslims but the Australian community, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abuse of these laws is not only the worry of Muslims but the Australian community,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37389]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to make the local market inoperative and erect a strong barrier to the entry of foreign capital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to make the local market inoperative and erect a strong barrier to the entry of foreign capital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18511]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18511</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[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57142]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5935]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63425]]></link><description><![CDATA[As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37920]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a championship, you've got to be solid, tough and physical defensively and I don't think we were that, especially in the last 10 minutes of that game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great seal of truth is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great seal of truth is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that I think we've done this season is to show navy and gray in a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that I think we've done this season is to show navy and gray in a very new way. Most men understand navy and gray as a navy blazer and a gray flannel trouser, but today, we're taking that very traditional color palette and putting it in a more modern shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8746]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12463]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49576]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them and rebuild. The governor must look like the leader at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a lot of confidence coming in, and now let's see what we can do with it. I wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a lot of confidence coming in, and now let's see what we can do with it. I wanted to start off right today, and I did so I'm happy. Now I can move on to my next match, and we'll see what happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen him pitch a lot. He looks stronger physically from what I've seen and seems to be throwing harder. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34868]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen him pitch a lot. He looks stronger physically from what I've seen and seems to be throwing harder. He's (looking) a lot better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So weight loss is not easy because the body is essentially working against you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41066]]></link><description><![CDATA[So weight loss is not easy because the body is essentially working against you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses;  It slipped from politics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58619]]></link><description><![CDATA[His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses;  It slipped from politics to puns;   It passed from Mahomet to Moses;    Beginning with the laws that keep     The planets in the radiant courses,      And ending with some precept deep       For dressing eels or shoeing horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14596]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a much-threatened VVIP. We are fully geared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41369]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a much-threatened VVIP. We are fully geared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   It was not a marriage only, but a marriage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   It was not a marriage only, but a marriage feast to which Christ conducted His disciples. Now, we cannot get over this plain fact by saying that it was a religious ceremony: that would be mere sophistry. It was an indulgence in the festivity of life; as plainly as words can describe, here was a banquet of human enjoyment. The very language of the master of the feast about men who had well drunk, tells us that there had been, not excess, of course, but happiness there, and merry-making. Neither can we explain away the lesson by saying that it is no example to us, for Christ was there to do good, and that what was safe for Him might be unsafe for us. For if His life is no pattern for us here in this case of accepting an invitation, in what can we be sure it is a pattern? Besides, He took His disciples there, and His mother was there: they were not shielded, as He was, by immaculate purity. He was there as a guest first, as Messiah only afterwards: thereby He declared the sacredness of natural enjoyments.... For Christianity does not destroy what is natural, but ennobles it. To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7938</guid></item></channel></rss>