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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes conflict is necessary in the short term to achieve peace through the threat of aggression, and sometimes it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes conflict is necessary in the short term to achieve peace through the threat of aggression, and sometimes it is the threat of conflict which can establish peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is one of the best solutions to a clear mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is one of the best solutions to a clear mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commissioner simply took advantage of being in the region yesterday to accompany Mr. Benson in Jackson and participate in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commissioner simply took advantage of being in the region yesterday to accompany Mr. Benson in Jackson and participate in the meeting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54404]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus iners angusto tempore vertit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094]]></link><description><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.' He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12241]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59413]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said,   "Whose image never may depart,    Deep graven on this grateful heart,     Till memory be dead."      . . . .       St. Leon paused, as if he would        Not breathe her name in careless mood         Thus lightly to another;          Then bent his noble head, as though           To give the word the reverence due,            And gently said, "My mother!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because the governor hasn't seen a funding ordinance, there's no way for her to weigh in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because the governor hasn't seen a funding ordinance, there's no way for her to weigh in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see this as an indictment of Germany at all. I think the reason you're seeing these cases is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see this as an indictment of Germany at all. I think the reason you're seeing these cases is that Germany is so determined to get these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sitting member of the United States Senate had the power to foreclose on the home of the head of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sitting member of the United States Senate had the power to foreclose on the home of the head of the largest public workers union in the state. That is one of the largest conflicts of interest that we've ever heard of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52052]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers were missing spots. When you miss spots against a team like that, they make you pay. It unraveled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers were missing spots. When you miss spots against a team like that, they make you pay. It unraveled from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great fish [eat] the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16052]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great fish [eat] the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in previous years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just stood there and watched it burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just stood there and watched it burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have a precise idea of the numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17657]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[has no knowledge of the facts of the murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36854]]></link><description><![CDATA[has no knowledge of the facts of the murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36854</guid></item></channel></rss>