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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Mariana in the moated grange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mariana in the moated grange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50384]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53747]]></link><description><![CDATA[When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49093]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see a lot of ex-wives and ex-husbands just having a heyday with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see a lot of ex-wives and ex-husbands just having a heyday with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30199]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61638]]></link><description><![CDATA[As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47344]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is equal to desire and purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is equal to desire and purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638]]></link><description><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47842]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and your bosom, and other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14069]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and your bosom, and other of your charms. Indeed, not to fatigue myself with enumerating each of them, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy is that when a precision bomb hits a gas station surrounded by cottages, you discover that you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy is that when a precision bomb hits a gas station surrounded by cottages, you discover that you can't fight a humanitarian war in a humane way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave   Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud    Resigns his powers; the miser drops his hoard:     Where human folly sleeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough   Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. Sometimes I don't [get into foul trouble], and tonight I didn't, and I was able to stay on the floor. I was able to do what I do, which is grab boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure  You credit anything the light gives life to   Before a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57728]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started.... My health is very good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no heresies in a dead religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19207]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no heresies in a dead religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50577]]></link><description><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11879</guid></item></channel></rss>