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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57182]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,--   Nature's observatory--whence the dell,    In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,     May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep      'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap       Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a gentleman farmer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a gentleman farmer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can cause a strike. But no fool can resolve one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can cause a strike. But no fool can resolve one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44752]]></link><description><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.J. turned in an excellent effort. He could be a real surprise to others at 152. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38924]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.J. turned in an excellent effort. He could be a real surprise to others at 152.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,  Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,   O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming;    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there!      Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave,       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61841]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's probably the only time I will ever play there. I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's probably the only time I will ever play there. I had so much fun. When I got up there and realized where I was and thought about all the famous musicians who played there ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it gave me chills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16641]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer opens the understanding to the brightness of Divine Light, and the will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer opens the understanding to the brightness of Divine Light, and the will to the warmth of Heavenly Love -- nothing can so effectually purify the mind from its many ignorances, or the will from its perverse affections. It is as a healing water which causes the roots of our good desires to send forth fresh shoots, which washes away the soul's imperfections, and allays the thirst of passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50387]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49359]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk,  The beetle booms adown the glooms   And bumps along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3916]]></link><description><![CDATA[O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk,  The beetle booms adown the glooms   And bumps along the dusk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, and we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32799]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, and we didn't feel like we had any control or say in it, and really we didn't. (Now the) insurance committee will have sole power to bring in representatives of insurance companies to listen to what they have and to make the decision on what insurance coverage is going to be elected by the union and the company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of rain; Grateful for joy, with an endless thanksgiving, Grateful for laughter -- and grateful for pain. Lord, I am glad for the young April's wonder, Glad for the fulness of long summer days; And now when the spring and my heart are asunder, Lord, I give thanks for the dark autumn ways. Sun, bloom, and blossom, O Lord, I remember, The dream of the spring and its joy I recall; But now in the silence and pain of November, Lord, I give thanks to Thee, Giver of all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. - The Treasure of Franchard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27609]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. - The Treasure of Franchard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5847]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63571]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou make him to be any such thing, or make him to do any such thing, as thou in thy proportion shouldst not be, or shouldst not do. And shouldst thou curse any man that had never offended, never transgrest, never trespass thee? Can God have done so? Will God curse man, before man have sinned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27756]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people who had helped me should really get the recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39053]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people who had helped me should really get the recognition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51132</guid></item></channel></rss>