<?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[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world order, except the Arab world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,   The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not sure who are No. 2 is going to be. As of now, we're just calling him Johnny All-Staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not sure who are No. 2 is going to be. As of now, we're just calling him Johnny All-Staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14802]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4600]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;I am the hawk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry;All those who see me, and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  So men were developed from monkeys of course,   Which nobody can deny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want to try to bring them all together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few love to hear the sins they love to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50244]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14204]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act of goodwill permanently and sensibly increases goodwill. Trifling acts of goodwill are often more efficacious in this way than great ones. A flower given in kindness and at the right time profits more, both to giver and receiver, than some vast material benefit in which the goodwill is hidden by the magnitude of the act. Some little, sensible, individual touch from the hand of our Lord may convert the heart more than the contemplation of His death for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004</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[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[It's about stuff that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think. What they think is up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41400]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about stuff that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think. What they think is up to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54775]]></link><description><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50763]]></link><description><![CDATA[That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17935]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now hath my life across a stormy sea  Like a frail bark reached that wide port where all  Are bidden, ere the final reckoning fall Of good and evil for eternity. Now know I well how that fond phantasy  Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall  Of earthly art, is vain; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly. Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed,  What are they when the double death is nigh?  The one I know for sure, the other dread. Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest  My soul that turns to His great love on high,  Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. -Donald Trump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37997]]></link><description><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began serving as coordinator in 2000, and Emma's essay was one of the best I've seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57119]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as the night settles around the foxholes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,   From strength to strength advancing--only he    His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,     Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You knowwhy? While you're carrying a grudge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You knowwhy? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4040]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39785]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to know each other and become good friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing, ... And I think thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s what our concern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36875]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing, ... And I think thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s what our concern was. WeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢re not trying to tell Auburn who should be the chief executive officer. (WeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢re) asking them to go ahead and make decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36875</guid></item></channel></rss>