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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that speaks much, is much mistaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64847]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that speaks much, is much mistaken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always be little and sweet,   And a sting should be felt in its tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongthemselves.Ojibway Tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45963]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongthemselves.Ojibway Tribe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little labour, much health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little labour, much health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50784]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Krishnamurti. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Krishnamurti.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54472]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;  And as their subjects ought them to obey,   So kings should feare and serve their God againe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23435]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22843]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2896]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo,  Che saziando di se, di se s'asseta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen Spielberg at a breast cancer benefit and he explained that he’d seen me on Saturday Night Live and thought I was ready for a movie. He said, ‘You go to the ledge and are unafraid to jump off.’ That was the biggest compliment to me because he was saying I was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as muchas you can. GIVE as much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21307]]></link><description><![CDATA[EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as muchas you can. GIVE as much as you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30352]]></link><description><![CDATA[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[post-apocalyptic fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38846]]></link><description><![CDATA[post-apocalyptic fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The portions of some books really worth notice are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51831]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The portions of some books really worth notice are few and far between.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16017]]></link><description><![CDATA[They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the hardest things to forecast. So, get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32210]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the hardest things to forecast. So, get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You began better than you have finished; the last act is not equal to the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You began better than you have finished; the last act is not equal to the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all the awards she was given, she never put one on the wall. They're all under the bed. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31090]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all the awards she was given, she never put one on the wall. They're all under the bed. She said that she didn't need that; she knew what she'd done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13829]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are eagles of one nest - the nest is in our soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53421]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are eagles of one nest - the nest is in our soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[she explains, ''but I think they really need to go back to their core constituents. I'd like to focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41631]]></link><description><![CDATA[she explains, ''but I think they really need to go back to their core constituents. I'd like to focus on being the orchestra of the city of Baltimore and figure out how to give everyone in the community access to art music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18534]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.   What, up and down carved like an apple tart?    Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,     Like to a censer in a barber's shop.      Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52386</guid></item></channel></rss>