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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Better fed than taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better fed than taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/977]]></link><description><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. •Bible   Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. •Gaelic Proverb   There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. •Gilbert K. Chesterton   If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. •Arabian Proverb   The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. •Benjamin Franklin   See with your mind, hear with your heart. •Kurdish Proverb   Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. •David Hare   Were it not for hope the heart would break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all so busy these days that it's hard for parents to spend time with their kids. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all so busy these days that it's hard for parents to spend time with their kids. This is a way for families to spend time together doing something creative. And when it's done, everybody will have created a memory they can take home with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35789]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we couldn't take Sweden lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the public really is going to react to this is if we can get through the legislative process. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38379]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the public really is going to react to this is if we can get through the legislative process. And we don't feel it's worth going too far with it right now because we don't know what will happen at the legislature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14320]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. - Broken Vessels, 1991.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer combination of nihilism and deification. Theoretically, man is said to be nothing but an animal with a highly developed cerebrum. At the same time, it is believed of this man that he is capable by science and technical devices of achieving whatever he wants. The deification which might have been thought to be finally overcome, returns as it were from behind, in the form of a deification of technical creativity to which not much less than omnipotence is ascribed. After mankind has done away with the pseudo-religion of race and blood, it is faced with the even greater danger of a technocratical pseudo-religion. There is no room for human personality, freedom and justice in either of these new religions of divine man. But the most dangerous of all must be the one which makes man at the same time nothing and God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28543]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, perseverance, hard work and optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to relish a love-song like a robin-redbreast, to walk alone like one that had the pestilence, to sigh like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C, to weep like a young wench that had buried her grandam, to fast like one that takes diet, to watch like one that fears robbing, to speak puling like a beggar at Hallowmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53078]]></link><description><![CDATA[A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62225]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a good decade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a good decade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58903]]></link><description><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,   Presuming on their changeful potency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin'   And Lady Morgan making tay.    For 'tis the capital of the finest nation,     With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod,      Fightin' like devils for conciliation,       And hatin' each other for the Love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39147]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110</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[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38319]]></link><description><![CDATA[In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4932]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39564]]></link><description><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23997]]></link><description><![CDATA[To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16768]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11745]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a draft of the proposals in hand which we're going through. A vote this week is possible, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a draft of the proposals in hand which we're going through. A vote this week is possible, but there are still some areas where we don't have agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item></channel></rss>