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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45208]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are beating   Funeral marches to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's getting better every week. He's kind of quiet, but that can be good sometimes. He just goes out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33173]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's getting better every week. He's kind of quiet, but that can be good sometimes. He just goes out there and does his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are searching for the Holocaust, you will find the real Holocaust in Palestine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41299]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are searching for the Holocaust, you will find the real Holocaust in Palestine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63682]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is never a gentle master ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is never a gentle master]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18852]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: From Thee all skill and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: From Thee all skill and science flow,  All pity, care and love,  All calm and courage, faith and hope;  O pour them from above. And part them, Lord, to each and all,  As each and all shall need, To rise like incense, each to Thee,  In noble thought and deed. And hasten, Lord, that perfect day  When pain and death shall cease, And Thy just rule shall fill the earth  With health and light and peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a society without a heroic dimension? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19252]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a society without a heroic dimension?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive art, but he can make an art that communicates what he experiences of redemption as a man and what he knows of it as an artist. God in his infinite wisdom may use an art work as an instrument of redemption, but what serves or can serve that purpose is beyond the knowledge of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is the child of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/850]]></link><description><![CDATA[This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course the opening match is important but the cut will be made after three matches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course the opening match is important but the cut will be made after three matches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye waft me to summers of old,   When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight,    And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight,     Like treasures of silver and gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but not to the point where we do not know what we're doing. We just have to go into the game with intensity and remain focused on our goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardon all but thy selfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardon all but thy selfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does all the little things ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â taking charges, defending tough guys. And for a guy to rebound like he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29627]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does all the little things ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â taking charges, defending tough guys. And for a guy to rebound like he does at his size, that's extraordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,  Nor how, so we die well; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11179]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,  Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so   Need lamentation for him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed!  I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed!  I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru;  Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru;  Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,   And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63849]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210]]></link><description><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. We've just never been able to put it together and play as a team. This year we've played as a team. Everybody's so excited about going to the playoffs. We just want to keep that hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4489]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19677]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child of those tears. [Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58782]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child of those tears. [Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58782</guid></item></channel></rss>