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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;  His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,   That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:    Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,     That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,      Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.       And if at first he fail, his second summersaut        He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,         Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling          Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a little wear and tear from the travel. The 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds on the team definitely recover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39037]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a little wear and tear from the travel. The 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds on the team definitely recover quicker than us coaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42075]]></link><description><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you do that? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29452]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you do that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54630]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12848]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very proud of the support that we received from deputies of the LaPorte County Sheriff's office during this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very proud of the support that we received from deputies of the LaPorte County Sheriff's office during this catastrophe,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3709]]></link><description><![CDATA[My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a group is able to underwrite the cost of catering an event, we would encourage them to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31084]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a group is able to underwrite the cost of catering an event, we would encourage them to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48225]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with good leadership by Prime Minister Allawi and his ministers, that the elections will be able to be held,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12387]]></link><description><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10966]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not bad. I had to fight back after the bad start. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31811]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not bad. I had to fight back after the bad start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16676]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weariness comes from work not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weariness comes from work not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2506]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is being married to your best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is being married to your best friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He held his opponent to the fence, threw leg kicks, knees to the head, and punches. It was three minutes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32261]]></link><description><![CDATA[He held his opponent to the fence, threw leg kicks, knees to the head, and punches. It was three minutes of punishment and that's when the referee stopped the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53410]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has some more things to learn, but he'll learn them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has some more things to learn, but he'll learn them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198</guid></item></channel></rss>