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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can afford to be a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50241]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can afford to be a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this sense of burnout. We know our people need to rest and recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25079]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44054]]></link><description><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:   And trod the mountain height,    Where Science, young and bright,     Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.      Yet have I found no power to vie       With thine, severe necessity!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62874]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere facts are for children only. As they begin to point towards conclusions they become food for men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere facts are for children only. As they begin to point towards conclusions they become food for men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a major league pitcher. He has a lot of experience; he knows how to pitch in and out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41146]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a major league pitcher. He has a lot of experience; he knows how to pitch in and out, and he knows how to get ahead in the count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;  But if as on occasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;  But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour,   It has no great significance, it loses half its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be glad for them to come to us, obviously. (Heidelberg) coach (Eugene) Harmon said their field had a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be glad for them to come to us, obviously. (Heidelberg) coach (Eugene) Harmon said their field had a few trees down on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16165]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,  Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27141]]></link><description><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize a set of facts, and that no one has any claim to be considered as a serious rival to Darwin in the "discovery" of this theory who did not conduct his evolutionary studies upon a reasonably wide basis of facts. To have ideas, apercus, is not enough, and it is the overevalutation of such clever but uncontrolled guesses which is apt to produce the ludicrous fallacy of combination, in which fragments of the final theory are collected from widely scattered sources and are combined in such a way as to impugn the originality of him who was the first to see how such a synthesis was possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13247]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58564]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He the sweetest of all singers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He the sweetest of all singers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice-- in or out of court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice-- in or out of court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome was not built in a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome was not built in a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55555]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56055]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56055</guid></item></channel></rss>