<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!   The river glideth at his own sweet will.    Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;     And all that mighty heart is lying still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value of our company, including those proposed by Mr. Icahn and his group. Investors should rest assured that this evaluation is being done in a prudent and deliberate manner with an eye toward creating sustainable value for all of our shareholders and as always we will keep our shareholders informed regarding our initiatives and direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,   And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure own your errors past,   And make each day a critique on the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60055]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63753]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All glory comes from daring to begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3977]]></link><description><![CDATA[All glory comes from daring to begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen,  What we can we will be,   Honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen,  What we can we will be,   Honest Englishmen.    Do the work that's nearest     Though it's dull at whiles,      Helping, when we meet them,       Lame dogs over stiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labour is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put under Homeland Security and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41516]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put under Homeland Security and obviously it didn't work and I think they will want to reexamine how they respond to disasters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or being able to chat with friends as the television program is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35689]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't hurt, ... It's like deja vu all over again. It's fine. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't hurt, ... It's like deja vu all over again. It's fine. I'll take the same approach as last year. All I can do is prepare for battle. When game time comes I'll play above and beyond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went crazy looking for another place down there. I'm still looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went crazy looking for another place down there. I'm still looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final week of early voting is always the heaviest, and the hotter the race, the heavier the turnout in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final week of early voting is always the heaviest, and the hotter the race, the heavier the turnout in the last few days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was nervous we weren't going to get anyone through to the states. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was nervous we weren't going to get anyone through to the states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24612]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54251]]></link><description><![CDATA[It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is to bow than breake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is to bow than breake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26129]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we played bad. They just hit the ball (well). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we played bad. They just hit the ball (well).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further you go, the better chance there is that you're going to get your heart ripped out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further you go, the better chance there is that you're going to get your heart ripped out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;  No bloody streamlet stained   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8626]]></link><description><![CDATA[No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;  No bloody streamlet stained   Earth's silver rivers on the sacred morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9992]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9992</guid></item></channel></rss>