<?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[Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is to take the cup of Providence, and call upon the name of the Lord. What the cup contains is its contents. To get all that is in the cup is the act and art of contentment. Not to drink because one has but half a cup, or because one does not like its flavor, or because somebody else has silver to one's own glass, is to lose the contents; and that is the penalty, if not the meaning, of discontent. No one is discontented who employs and enjoys to the utmost what he has. It is high philosophy to say, we can have just what we like if we like what we have; but this much at least can be done, and this is contentment: to have the most and best in life by making the most and best of what we have.   ... Maltbie D. Babcock August 7, 2000 Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does not content himself with the denunciation of error, but finds the best defense against its insidious approaches in a closer adherence to the love of God and faith in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child correct behind and not before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child correct behind and not before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night of the Wolf, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night of the Wolf,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kiss the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kiss the rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50682]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the Spencer mural has long since faded away, and they have put (up) a new mural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37260]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the Spencer mural has long since faded away, and they have put (up) a new mural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46521]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of dead dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother of dead dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26276]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We aren't here today because of Michael Roberts. We're not here today because of what he had or didn't have, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We aren't here today because of Michael Roberts. We're not here today because of what he had or didn't have, where he lived or didn't live. We're here today because these four men are murderers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48483]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere fugiamus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48483</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[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine  In proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine  In proud display; yet take this truth from me--   Virtue alone is true nobility!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a reasonable model which could be used in other ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a reasonable model which could be used in other ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People perceive the campaign to be close, so that should stimulate people to vote. And the media environment is unbelievable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36489]]></link><description><![CDATA[People perceive the campaign to be close, so that should stimulate people to vote. And the media environment is unbelievable, in terms of focusing on the campaign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13897]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48844]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41088]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61318]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all four countries, it is clear that WFP will have to expand its existing operations to drought-affected populations in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36566]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all four countries, it is clear that WFP will have to expand its existing operations to drought-affected populations in order to address the increasing needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61361]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item></channel></rss>