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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58709]]></link><description><![CDATA[A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care,  Is none that with the little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care,  Is none that with the little wren's   In snugness may compare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55066]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there 's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he fell down. The TV in his room was knocked off its stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to Tony, he didn't give us much time to think about that shot. I thought we never lost control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to Tony, he didn't give us much time to think about that shot. I thought we never lost control of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40158]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growth issue has got to be probably our biggest concern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growth issue has got to be probably our biggest concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus  The moment we make up our minds that we are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus  The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the world's parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and businesse teach eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and businesse teach eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It all revolves around Coach Willy. He's been my coach and my mentor since I was four years old. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33097]]></link><description><![CDATA[It all revolves around Coach Willy. He's been my coach and my mentor since I was four years old. When we're swimming, he doesn't even have to say anything. Just the thought of him being there forces you to try harder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28135]]></link><description><![CDATA[If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change brings opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change brings opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the revision last year, I think from the political point of view the commission and the ministers have learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37999]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the revision last year, I think from the political point of view the commission and the ministers have learned a lot about the importance of establishing good dialogue channels to avoid these kinds of conflicts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17383]]></link><description><![CDATA[This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   Das ist der rechte Mann.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21906]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essencedeveloping, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age willstimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65873]]></link><description><![CDATA[My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9974]]></link><description><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen;  Yet seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen;  Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,   We first endure, then pity, then embrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a second self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32556</guid></item></channel></rss>