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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59701]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64582]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, Which holds but till thy news be uttered,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44474]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, Which holds but till thy news be uttered,  And then all this thou seest is but a clod   And module of confounded royalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let his tormentor conscience find him out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let his tormentor conscience find him out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53639]]></link><description><![CDATA[And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know myself now, and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities,  A still and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know myself now, and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities,  A still and quiet conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22966]]></link><description><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches only the teachable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches only the teachable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29693]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29636]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are made to be loved, not understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are made to be loved, not understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old cliche, but we've still got to get one more win. But we have the confidence to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31638]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old cliche, but we've still got to get one more win. But we have the confidence to know that we can be down and dig our way out of the hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Theologically, we have been discovering anew that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Theologically, we have been discovering anew that the Church is not an appendage to the Gospel: it is itself a part of the Gospel. The Gospel cannot be separated from that new people of God in which its nature is to be made manifest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven once saw   Which North and South do bound,    The stars above would make thee known,     If men here silent were;      The sun himself cannot forget       His fellow traveller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63212]]></link><description><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jerry: I love you ... you complete me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jerry: I love you ... you complete me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say something. I don't know what it is they expect him to say. Anytime they called to talk to him, he did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really think being at home helped. This is a big part of the season, with a lot of home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really think being at home helped. This is a big part of the season, with a lot of home games coming up. It feels good to come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock market will never depend on it, but I hope the report will annually at least focus attention on the status and condition of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hears thy stormy music in the drum! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43445]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hears thy stormy music in the drum!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65776]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. •Sophia Loren  Nothing's beautiful from every point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. •Sophia Loren  Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. •Horace   Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. •George Brossin Méré   ...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. •James Matthew Barrie   In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. •Christopher Morley   Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. •Charles Reade   Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. •Kin Hubbard   Beauty is not caused. It is. •Emily Dickinson   Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. •Edward Gibbon   My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter? •Kotomichi   Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. •Campbell  Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful. •Mme. de Pompadour  Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. •Pope  Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. •Lazarus Long  Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. •Shakespeare  It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have. •The Duchess of Windsor  Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits. •Erasmus               The beautiful are never desolate,               But someone always loves them. •Bailey   Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. •Ambrose Bierce   Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. •Luis Cernuda   Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women. •Katherine Hepburn  A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. •Helen Rowland  There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. •Countess of Blessington  Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. •Johann von Schiller  When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. •Gregory I  The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs. •Marlene Dietrich  Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. •John Keats   I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? •Jean Kerr  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt. •Anonymous  What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. •Father Andre   Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. •Aristotle   I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. •Tyra Banks  Exuberance is beauty. •William Blake   Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! •Bessie Delanay  As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. •Kahlil Gibran  Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. •Immermann  Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. •Socrates  Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les fruits.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5717]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2012</guid></item></channel></rss>