<?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[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's to look after the keepers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's to look after the keepers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no taking trout with dry breeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59740]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no taking trout with dry breeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow we will take a final decision about Seedorf, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow we will take a final decision about Seedorf,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33260]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, but as an African-American senator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disagreement involving students from our College at Florham and Metropolitan Campus and guests attending an Association of Black Collegians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42404]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disagreement involving students from our College at Florham and Metropolitan Campus and guests attending an Association of Black Collegians dance at Florham on Saturday evening resulted in an escalating confrontation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54053]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak   That once familiar word.   - Thomas Haynes Bayly,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66678]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms:  Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms:  Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades,   Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports)    Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds     No other merriment, dull tree! is thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210]]></link><description><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48963]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank you for not appreciating my work before 999,999 people, here's a gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time comes he whom God sends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49552]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time comes he whom God sends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No literary fact is more remarkable than that men, knowing what these writers knew, and feeling what they felt, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6370]]></link><description><![CDATA[No literary fact is more remarkable than that men, knowing what these writers knew, and feeling what they felt, should have given us chronicles so plain and calm. They have nothing to say as from themselves. Their narratives place us without preface, and keep us without comment, among external scenes, in full view of facts, and in contact with the living person whom they teach us to know... Who can fail to recognize a divine provision for placing the disciples of all future ages as nearly as possible in the position of those who had been personally present at "the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God"?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1157]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very game. Maybe, in his own way, he found a little extra incentive out of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very game. Maybe, in his own way, he found a little extra incentive out of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5511]]></link><description><![CDATA[A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19471]]></link><description><![CDATA[History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12632]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And you will be damned if you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18638]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63846</guid></item></channel></rss>