<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,  With her own blood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46007]]></link><description><![CDATA[By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,  With her own blood to life again doth bring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45988]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan in 2005. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42602]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan in 2005.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59437]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53927]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10131]]></link><description><![CDATA["Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry bye."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he attributes it to his teaching as a youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he attributes it to his teaching as a youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19217]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our people, and now it is interfering with this critical question of the arms race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they flow,   That can no comfort bring,    That can, that can no comfort bring,     With those exciting scenes will blend,      O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;       But mem'ry is the only friend        That grief can call its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is ready to provide any guarantees that our nuclear activities are not geared toward nuclear weapon production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is ready to provide any guarantees that our nuclear activities are not geared toward nuclear weapon production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2712]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an old drab coat   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41246]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public opinion for a government move to close us down, which they can now do under the new law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the mother of Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the mother of Truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, the people who are thousands of miles away from you, can make you feel better than people right beside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the people who are thousands of miles away from you, can make you feel better than people right beside you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9669]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60165]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History will mark its day of sadness when a great liberator of the Filipino people and a champion of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35863]]></link><description><![CDATA[History will mark its day of sadness when a great liberator of the Filipino people and a champion of God passed away, ... his wisdom and profound love for the poor and oppressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's 'freeest'country has the highestnumber in prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's 'freeest'country has the highestnumber in prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival in Los Angeles, and one girl told me, 'This movie makes me feel like I can do anything I want.' It shows that even if you don't have the resources, you can use your own will to change things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492]]></link><description><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute,   And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,    Where no crude surfeit reigns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great end of life is not knowledge but action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the major battle ground in the negotiations and we have won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29615]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the major battle ground in the negotiations and we have won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art requires courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3149]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art requires courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3149</guid></item></channel></rss>