<?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[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61145]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18958]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain requests about my passing, though. I hope that if I die in a plane crash, it's coming FROM a vacation instead of heading TO. I know, it's a small consolation, but I'd have a tan and would look rested at my calling hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried to hold up and threw the ball away and felt like just the biggest idiot alive at that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that will not embrace the Holy Spirit of God is encouraging satanic influences. We are not introducing Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that will not embrace the Holy Spirit of God is encouraging satanic influences. We are not introducing Jesus Christ to America, but this society has become a post-Christian society and that is a dangerous thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28560</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[Chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58170]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way back,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3122]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64799]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13658]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/357]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30029]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5686]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we knowin order to find out what we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we knowin order to find out what we do not know....Hence, to think creatively, wemust be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA more slenderveil isat the portalhiding the paradiseof the immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632]]></link><description><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I married beneath me. All women do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I married beneath me. All women do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harken to reason or shee will bee heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not just about the film industry: whether you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the information technology industry or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32680]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not just about the film industry: whether you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the information technology industry or filmed entertainment, the protection of intellectual property is crucial. If we can't build businesses around ideas, and feel comfortable that we have the right to those ideas, then our entire business is threatened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.  ... Lesslie Newbigin, The Household of God February 2, 2000 THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34507]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled water is not the answer in the developed world, nor does it solve problems for the 1.1 billion people who lack a secure water supply. Improving and expanding existing water treatment and sanitation systems is more likely to provide safe and sustainable sources of water over the long term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34507</guid></item></channel></rss>