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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,   All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. •Woody Allen  At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box. •Italian Proverb  Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. •Vladimir Nabokov  Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. •George Sanders, his suicide note  There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. •Santayana  Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. •George Bernard Shaw  Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. •Dylan Thomas  To live is to dream and to die is to awaken. •Anonymous   We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death. •Nathaniel Hawthorne  All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. •Anatole France   We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. •Plato   Dying is like getting out of a car. You leave a shell behind, but you're the same person as ever. •President Klein  The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy . What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. •Richard Bach  If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. •Albert Camus   We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal. •Anatole France  I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. •Jimi Hendrix  The real malady is fear of life, not of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63143]]></link><description><![CDATA[You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act is judged of by the event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act is judged of by the event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52673]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45885]]></link><description><![CDATA[At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30125]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like to see grown men bickering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here With my beer  I sit,   While golden moments flit:    Alas!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here With my beer  I sit,   While golden moments flit:    Alas!     They pass      Unheeded by:       And as they fly,        I,         Being dry,          Sit, idly sipping here           My beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23953]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians seeking social justice have a special responsibility. Much more is required than the bringing of aid to people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians seeking social justice have a special responsibility. Much more is required than the bringing of aid to people who are homeless and in need, and contributing to their support. There are real dangers to be faced. It must never be allowed to appear that charity is dispensed to the unfortunate by superior beings... Much greater care must be taken to identify the giver with those whom he comes to serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, happiness is a way of travel not a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, happiness is a way of travel not a destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49387]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was extremely impressed with all the boys' performances. It was a great way to start off the year, winning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was extremely impressed with all the boys' performances. It was a great way to start off the year, winning six flights rather convincingly. Good performance by everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. They were fun to watch play. When they received that award, they were all dressed up in red and white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21065]]></link><description><![CDATA[People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Though thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. I never hit them. I yelled a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32629</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[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are too sarcastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50832]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are too sarcastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28176]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, so it drains a much larger upland area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither accorded him a superior status to sustain his confidence nor made it easy for him to acquire an unquestioned sense of social usefulness. For he derives his sense of usefulness mainly from directing, instructing, and planning- from minding other people's business- and is bound to feel superfluous and neglected where people believe themselves competent to manage individual and communal affairs, and are impatient of supervision and regulation. A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28037]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the tyrants the world affords,Our own affections are the fiercest lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the tyrants the world affords,Our own affections are the fiercest lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22996]]></link><description><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be smarter than the people who hire you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be smarter than the people who hire you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49342]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49342</guid></item></channel></rss>