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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The Handmaiden of the Sciences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Handmaiden of the Sciences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karma-yoga is a supreme secret indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karma-yoga is a supreme secret indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14972]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--   They sought a faith's pure shrine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24059]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25053]]></link><description><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As leopard feels at home with leopard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48542]]></link><description><![CDATA[As leopard feels at home with leopard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615]]></link><description><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50137]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That was kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That was kind of a wake up call for us. He threw strikes and kept us in the ball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23159]]></link><description><![CDATA[No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved most curiously;   It is a little picture painted well.    What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the tear that fell     From a great poet's hidden ecstasy;      A two-edged sword, a star, a song--ah me!       Sometimes a heavy tolling funeral bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faith that stand on authority is not faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faith that stand on authority is not faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not sheer malice that pricks our ears to evil reports about our fellow men. For there are frequent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not sheer malice that pricks our ears to evil reports about our fellow men. For there are frequent moments when we feel lower than the lowest of mankind, and this opinion of ourselves isolates us. Hence the rumor that all flesh is base comes almost as a message of hope. It breaks down the wall that has kept us apart, and we feel one with humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival in Los Angeles, and one girl told me, 'This movie makes me feel like I can do anything I want.' It shows that even if you don't have the resources, you can use your own will to change things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790]]></link><description><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,   And find a deuced balance with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never get enough of what you don't want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21616]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never get enough of what you don't want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51174]]></link><description><![CDATA[No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Department has refused to allow the firm to tell its story to a grand jury, in violation of both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Department has refused to allow the firm to tell its story to a grand jury, in violation of both Department policy and the basic precepts of fundamental fairness,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3761]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persevere in virtue and diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persevere in virtue and diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,  Like the sweetheart of the sun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58293]]></link><description><![CDATA[She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,  Like the sweetheart of the sun,   Who many a glowing kiss had won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To play on the second biggest day on the football calendar is enormous and, for our young guys, it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35427]]></link><description><![CDATA[To play on the second biggest day on the football calendar is enormous and, for our young guys, it will give them a taste of a finals-type atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills,   The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though     Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.  [Lat., Virtus sui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.  [Lat., Virtus sui gloria.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game came together and they played really well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9408]]></link><description><![CDATA[What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of that religious way   Is better than to rest: We cannot reach our Savior's purity; Yet we are bid, 'Be holy ev'n as He':   In both let's do our best. Who goeth in the way which Christ hath gone Is much more sure to meet with Him than one   That traveleth by-ways; Perhaps my God, though He be far before,  May turn, and take me by the hand, and more,   May strengthen my decays. Yet, Lord, instruct us to improve our fast By starving sin, and taking such repast   As may our faults control; That ev'ry man may revel at his door, Not in his parlor -- banquetting the poor,   And among those, his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52856</guid></item></channel></rss>