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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22450]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave her to Heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,  To prick and sting her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave her to Heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,  To prick and sting her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight,  The tempest itself lags ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27517]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight,  The tempest itself lags behind,   And the swift-winged arrows of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55202]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. The dollar's advance is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. The dollar's advance is a major support for the bullish outlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. It is a scary thing to have happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49517]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three or four teams have backed out already, so it's going to be a small meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three or four teams have backed out already, so it's going to be a small meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By studying the masters and not their pupils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24518]]></link><description><![CDATA[By studying the masters and not their pupils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47164]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should change your name. That's a silly stance to take, because you're just going to disappoint people. Your early stuff is what people really attached themselves to. There aren't any songs that we won't play because we don't like them and don't think they're good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34231]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in Just-- spring when the world is mud--  luscious the little   lame balloonman    whistles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57784]]></link><description><![CDATA[in Just-- spring when the world is mud--  luscious the little   lame balloonman    whistles far and wee]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me,  I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me,  I want to be forgotten even by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a yawner of a year for small-business growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a yawner of a year for small-business growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,  Et quantum natura petat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,  This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,  This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found,   Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels arethe gift of fortune, while character comes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels arethe gift of fortune, while character comes from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3301]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which I moved alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got some big kids and some athletic kids. We're going to do our best to contain them and play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31311]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got some big kids and some athletic kids. We're going to do our best to contain them and play some good sound football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself,  'Enough, enough, and die.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself,  'Enough, enough, and die.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1661</guid></item></channel></rss>