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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be praised by a man who has won his laurels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48530]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6547]]></link><description><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; he bestows truth, as well as rain and sunshine, upon the just and the unjust. Christ is the "true light that enlightens every man". This bestowal should inspire feelings of joy, not resentment, in the heart of a Christian. Aristotle said many wise things about logic, Confucius many wise things about morals. When a Christian attacks general wisdom in the name of the gospel, the natural man will attack the gospel in the name of general wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee.Unfortunately, she was just coming home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21335]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee.Unfortunately, she was just coming home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality--I wish to live with you forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61164]]></link><description><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione solatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farre shooting never kild bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farre shooting never kild bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws,  And welcomes little fishes in   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16060]]></link><description><![CDATA[How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws,  And welcomes little fishes in   With gently smiling jaws!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain,  But the first joys of our heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain,  But the first joys of our heart   Come never back again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him. [The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him. [The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half she was struggling but when she turns a corner or hits a shot or steps up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half she was struggling but when she turns a corner or hits a shot or steps up and hits a play then it kind of opens things up. Her and Brittney are both the motor that makes us go. So they've got to do well and they both played real composed in the second half and real strong for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. [Lat., Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium  Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they kept covering my eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the West Coast has been really good to us, too. Canada not so much, but that was before the album came out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newest books are those that never grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newest books are those that never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26079]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16779]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54498]]></link><description><![CDATA[For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54498</guid></item></channel></rss>