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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir Thomas Browne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.   The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu   You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. •Mumon  Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. •Zen Saying  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. •Tilopa   When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. •Ying-An   There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. •Yuan-Wu  The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. •Robert M. Pirsig  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. •Zen Proverb  Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/678]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15511]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abu Bakr has been advocating intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abu Bakr has been advocating intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66058]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28872]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this methodof searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consistssolely in moving toward self-sufficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61395]]></link><description><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15418]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like our motto says, that's how we're going to approach it. As a football team, we like challenges, and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like our motto says, that's how we're going to approach it. As a football team, we like challenges, and it's going to be a challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6018]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2288]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman submits to her fate; man makes his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!  [Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!  [Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!   O semper timidum scelus!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405]]></link><description><![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become common property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become common property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May all your labors be in vein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59400]]></link><description><![CDATA[May all your labors be in vein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. Of the present moment -- and of it only -- humans have an experience analogous to the experience which God has of reality as a whole; in it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with Eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present -- either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself; or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43023]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24877</guid></item></channel></rss>