<?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[Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast,  Our little English Robin; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast,  Our little English Robin;   The bird that comes about our doors    When autumn winds are sobbing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing moves more quickly than scandal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to suffer wrong than do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62441]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you're broken, you don't know what you're made of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you're broken, you don't know what you're made of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49951]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch Me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch Me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what youdo. Attitude determines how well you do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what youdo. Attitude determines how well you do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, with the whole heart. It is not the understanding of the mind, not the theological opinion, not creed, not organization, not ritual. It is the koinonia of the whole personality with God and Christ, ... This experience of communion with Christ is itself the continual attitude of dependence on the Saviour which we call faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7382</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[I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first two years we'll probably take 10 because we want to build a nice foundation. After that, we'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38780]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first two years we'll probably take 10 because we want to build a nice foundation. After that, we'll probably do it more like the major league hall where there is no guaranteed amount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun had sunk and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light  That melted soon in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun had sunk and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light  That melted soon in the deep moon-rise   That flowed over Groton Height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47901]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34315]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no therapeutic interventions were necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3734]]></link><description><![CDATA[... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though he was rough, he was kindly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though he was rough, he was kindly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23755</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[Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and console her in other ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes that they had taken: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16102]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes that they had taken: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth, thou shalt catch men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something for an Empty Briefcase ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something for an Empty Briefcase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25106]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. -Anita Roddick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29809]]></link><description><![CDATA[This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to the enemy's doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29944]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The "greater love than this" of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one's friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for "us" seems too selfish -- and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24082]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a meansof settling international disputes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10137]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks a cruel bee that stings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's worked very hard on all fronts in the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36491]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's worked very hard on all fronts in the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54444]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedest the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits  For breath to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits  For breath to reinspire him from the gates   That open still toward sunrise on the vault    High-domed of morning.   - Algernon Charles Swinburne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy ishere./ The time to be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21645]]></link><description><![CDATA[My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy ishere./ The time to be happy is now./ The way to be happy is to make othersso.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21645</guid></item></channel></rss>