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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes,   Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white as snow;    I like the chaliced lilies,     The heavy Eastern lilies,      The gorgeous tiger-lilies,       That in our garden grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,  In all his pomp of pageantry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,  In all his pomp of pageantry, as if   He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21733]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15640]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the city of the saintly,   The New Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a short madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a short madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a good opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30555]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a good opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starred forget-me-nots smile sweetly, Ring, bluebells, ring!  Winning eye and heart completely,   Sing, robin, sing!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starred forget-me-nots smile sweetly, Ring, bluebells, ring!  Winning eye and heart completely,   Sing, robin, sing!    All among the reeds and rushes,     Where the brook its music hushes,      Bright the caloposon blushes,__       Laugh, O murmuring Spring!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47863]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27464]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along,the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass,thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect forhimself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refusedto move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid hiswhip lustily about his shoulders and said, O you perversedull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to anAss. They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time. [Lat., Inprobe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56197]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time. [Lat., Inprobe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, and we've already taken all the classes and shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, and we've already taken all the classes and shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hesitated to do it last year, but finally decided we need to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hesitated to do it last year, but finally decided we need to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very dangerous. The timing is extremely important. He's sensing that there's a failed state in Sudan and he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very dangerous. The timing is extremely important. He's sensing that there's a failed state in Sudan and he would like to extend his bases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 4. the ministry of helpfulness   Active helpfulness means, initially, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 4. the ministry of helpfulness   Active helpfulness means, initially, simple assistance in trifling, external matters. There is a multitude of these things wherever people live together. Nobody is too good for the meanest service...   We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks, as the priest passed by the man who had fallen among thieves, perhaps -- reading the Bible. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised athwart our path to show us that not our way, but God's way must be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are just a suggestion, like pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motley 's the only wear. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motley 's the only wear. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52193]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasten deliberately. [Lat., Festina lente.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasten deliberately. [Lat., Festina lente.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60754</guid></item></channel></rss>