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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What was once thought can never be unthought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/938]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was once thought can never be unthought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are consumed very quickly at the first of the year, and we need to look at increasing that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31977]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are consumed very quickly at the first of the year, and we need to look at increasing that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51755]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson has an insatiable appetite for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson has an insatiable appetite for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know who killed Jane. It was Ricky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32056]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know who killed Jane. It was Ricky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25517]]></link><description><![CDATA[LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17389]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54586]]></link><description><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25771]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54246]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest answer is the sign of true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is the indispensable investment required for success in the 'information age' we are entering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is the indispensable investment required for success in the 'information age' we are entering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay my head   On my grave, as now my bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. - The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortly Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, butrather as a problem with ourselves, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, butrather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we willimmediately feel overwhelmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never any proper legal team. It was a media hype more than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28224]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never any proper legal team. It was a media hype more than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and hit it with a hammer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38708]]></link><description><![CDATA[and hit it with a hammer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was obvious we were stalling like a hurricane in the middle of the ocean, ... not going anywhere, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was obvious we were stalling like a hurricane in the middle of the ocean, ... not going anywhere, so why not give the young guys a shot?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16826]]></link><description><![CDATA[My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time.(7:3).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8710]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of his mouth and took wing from the room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10770</guid></item></channel></rss>