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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unfortunate for teachers feeling that way, that they don't want to be singled out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unfortunate for teachers feeling that way, that they don't want to be singled out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody picks on a strong man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody picks on a strong man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve  By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26471]]></link><description><![CDATA[This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve  By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath   Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze,    Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird     Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.      Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed       The air is delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48035]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60444]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are finally starting to click and run our transition like we knew we could. We are throwing and catching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are finally starting to click and run our transition like we knew we could. We are throwing and catching like we do in practice, and we are finally getting settled down in a game situation. Our defense seems to be clicking really nicely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday will never come and take you by the hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday will never come and take you by the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die;  The near approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die;  The near approach a bed may show   Of human bliss to human woe.    [Fr., Theatre des ris et des pleurs     Lit! ou je nais, et ou je meurs,      Tu nous fais voir comment voisins       Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18500]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38819]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way,surrounded by your family. Nurture their love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way,surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering thatyour children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hastenwhen you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. Andeven if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you havea loving family, you are a success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62039]]></link><description><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17925]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20173]]></link><description><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11216]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie's a good guy. He's a tough competitor on the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie's a good guy. He's a tough competitor on the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56515]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands to it for help--for it   As impotently moves as you or I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the refusal to panic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the refusal to panic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51628]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52508]]></link><description><![CDATA[All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4168]]></link><description><![CDATA[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into it. If they get you into it, you're in trouble. They play a bumping and pushing style, and if it's not called, your kids try to do it, too. It worked (for them) tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38850</guid></item></channel></rss>