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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the refusal to panic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the refusal to panic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land she travels from?Away, far far behind, is all that they can say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66839]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is not a home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19605]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is not a home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16172]]></link><description><![CDATA[What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would be an unbelievable, fantastic run for both teams [to win titles], but I think it would be unbelievable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32698]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would be an unbelievable, fantastic run for both teams [to win titles], but I think it would be unbelievable for the fans. They'd go from basketball to hockey, basketball to hockey. They're going to be pretty busy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18847]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, that I were where I would be, Then would I be where I am not;  For where I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61789]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, that I were where I would be, Then would I be where I am not;  For where I am I would not be,   And where I would be I can not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. -Marge Piercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27130]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. -Marge Piercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45294]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3687]]></link><description><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32313]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised by DFAT that that would be outside the UN sanctions and a breach of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41287]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have two guys who are battling hard, who are in an emotional game and who drop the gloves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33974]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have two guys who are battling hard, who are in an emotional game and who drop the gloves, to me that's a 'hockey fight,' and I have no problem with that. But if you have two guys who go out on the ice looking for someone to fight, and it has little to do with the game, there's really no reason for that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62471]]></link><description><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of New Orleans,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,  And how he keeps  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,  And how he keeps   Gloating upon a sheep's    Or bullock's personals, as if his own;     How he admires his halves      And quarters--and his calves,       As if in truth upon his own legs grown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . I'm not blaming it on that one possession (where he lost it). We were up in the first half and in the second half we didn't jump on them. I don't blame one play. Mistakes happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13514]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52032]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The Heart's Domain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9465]]></link><description><![CDATA[This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11235]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee,  That no revenue hast but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee,  That no revenue hast but thy good spirits   To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?    No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp,     And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee      Where thrift may follow fawning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16169</guid></item></channel></rss>