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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9846]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Check disease in its approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Check disease in its approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the shadow of his wings   He can at pleasure stint their melody:    Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9939]]></link><description><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient sages sought,   Physic and food in sour and sweet,    To take what passes in good part,     And keep the hiccups from the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that the huge changes right after September 11, like the National Guard at the airport, have been cut back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30240]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4168]]></link><description><![CDATA[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Last words, October ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Last words, October 12, 1915.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared to after because of all the media. Later, it's more about the ceremony itself and not the films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy," to make judgments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the parent of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the parent of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50073]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty drawes more then oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty drawes more then oxen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've just got to think that your legs aren't tired and there's still a lot of game left to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've just got to think that your legs aren't tired and there's still a lot of game left to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38916</guid></item><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[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we live a sad moment, all the Muslims of France, because he who touches a human life touches the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we live a sad moment, all the Muslims of France, because he who touches a human life touches the life of humanity as a whole,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54790]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not saying he's going to get a pass. If the state economy is in the hole his entire term, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33402]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not saying he's going to get a pass. If the state economy is in the hole his entire term, that's going to be an albatross. Any kind of honeymoon he had is gone. It's the same old typical politician, I think, that's how a lot of that anger is going to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are heroes in evil as well as in good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19238]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are heroes in evil as well as in good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the guys don't turn up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48285</guid></item></channel></rss>