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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/779]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27566]]></link><description><![CDATA[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be when he was my age, when he was in his prime, because we are so much alike,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was surprised at the fact that AXA Financial had spent so much time and money trying to build DLJ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42445]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was surprised at the fact that AXA Financial had spent so much time and money trying to build DLJ, especially build its presence in Europe the last couple of years and now it's pulling the ripcord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43007]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience means restraining one's inclinations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second  Stood heir to th's first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second  Stood heir to th's first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,  Useth the sparrow--did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10813]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,  Useth the sparrow--did oppress our nest; . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing what those situations can do. It changed the whole ... the game. If it's anything that's been killing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing what those situations can do. It changed the whole ... the game. If it's anything that's been killing us, it's turnovers. We've been turning it over too many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane;  But pain is not the fruit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45363]]></link><description><![CDATA[World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane;  But pain is not the fruit of pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389]]></link><description><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22779]]></link><description><![CDATA[School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34597]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of Alaska as seen from the air, and with one click of a button, the viewer is able to add the locations of all of the other drilling sites in Alaska. It really drives home that most of Alaska is already open to oil and gas development and there's this one place that we've managed to protect thus far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Strickland) has more money than the other candidates. He's an excellent campaigner. Barring any unexpected event, he'll be impossible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32213]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Strickland) has more money than the other candidates. He's an excellent campaigner. Barring any unexpected event, he'll be impossible to catch. I think Ted can win in November.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48206]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's always pretty obvious to most of the public when something was done with heart and mind. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's always pretty obvious to most of the public when something was done with heart and mind. You can't fake it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60295]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15157]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A golden key can open any door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A golden key can open any door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw they had 28 yards rushing in the first half, I said, 'We're back,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38378]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw they had 28 yards rushing in the first half, I said, 'We're back,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're a decent basketball team. I hope we can get better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're a decent basketball team. I hope we can get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33969</guid></item></channel></rss>