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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st  Of his profession, that his good receipt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st  Of his profession, that his good receipt   Shall for my legacy be sanctified    By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor     But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture      The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure       By such a day and hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall  Him or his children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall  Him or his children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14261]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54720]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would,  Acts little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54505]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would,  Acts little of his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big girls need big diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big girls need big diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33095]]></link><description><![CDATA[This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than anything -- gay, straight, whatever -- just how cool Willie is and ... his way of thinking, his tolerance, everything about him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58785]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to kill canters in the musk-rose buds,   Some war with reremice for their leathren wings,    To make my small elves coats, and some keep back     The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders      At our quaint spirits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55304]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them   And show the heavens more just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925]]></link><description><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to him who tries and fails and dies,   I give great honor and glory and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56637]]></link><description><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good conscience is a continued Christmas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9827]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good conscience is a continued Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64900]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a blush In the midst of brown was born,  Like red poppies grown with corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a blush In the midst of brown was born,  Like red poppies grown with corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26227]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? Itis a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo inthe winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4957]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64278]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. But I'm just happy to be up here with Joane and Karin. I look up to both of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work at it night and day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work at it night and day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9582]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27021]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54388]]></link><description><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2259]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2259</guid></item></channel></rss>