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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23967]]></link><description><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I can contribute. I'm not playing the way that I want to. With the new rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I can contribute. I'm not playing the way that I want to. With the new rules and with the new systems we have, I'm not playing as much. I'm not playing up to my standards, that's first and foremost. I'm the one who has to look at myself in the mirror every day and I have high expectations for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was in the sand numerous times and her sand game, like I said, was extremely good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32442]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was in the sand numerous times and her sand game, like I said, was extremely good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tag yourself into glass. It's a new scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29235]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tag yourself into glass. It's a new scourge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if it's going to be a painful few days or two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if it's going to be a painful few days or two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41552]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395]]></link><description><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that follows intellect can achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that follows intellect can achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still hope that Poland will join this agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41588]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still hope that Poland will join this agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never made a film using dialogue or speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39874]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friends isn't about who came first and who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63033]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friends isn't about who came first and who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15178]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hajj period is important because of the large number of movements of people from around the world into one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hajj period is important because of the large number of movements of people from around the world into one location,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. •Johann Kaspar Lavater  It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. •Fred Allen   We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12072]]></link><description><![CDATA[They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11752</guid></item></channel></rss>