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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There are as many opinions as there are experts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are as many opinions as there are experts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just missed being out there with all my friends and having fun playing on Friday nights. I kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just missed being out there with all my friends and having fun playing on Friday nights. I kind of felt bad for the guys when they lost. I kind of felt like I should be out there helping them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708]]></link><description><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more Physitians in health then drunkards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49947]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34218]]></link><description><![CDATA[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My wife and I wanted to have more time to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59099]]></link><description><![CDATA[In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36661]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for her. We're trying to break that perception, because obviously our median age is not 14.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54467]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationshipsmoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationshipsmoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness withoutpain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56984]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you appears   That I will deeply put the fashion on    And wear it in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea hath fish for every man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea hath fish for every man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42512]]></link><description><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will migrate over time, ... We really don't see a mass substitution or a great big cliff ahead of us, but rather that people will use this [Net2Phone applications] in conjunction with activities that they are performing in the Internet portal space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son. She resolutely said, I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the onlything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the onlything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So free we seem, so fettered fast we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24725]]></link><description><![CDATA[So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not yet final, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not yet final,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30741]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be it not in thy care. Go, I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide  Of knaves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be it not in thy care. Go, I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide  Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7927]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth to hold his peace. No man safely ruleth but he who loveth to be subject. No man safely commandeth but he who loveth to obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7927</guid></item></channel></rss>