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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Illustrious predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illustrious predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours  Were nice and lucky, men did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours  Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives   Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth    And send to darkness all that stop me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55865]]></link><description><![CDATA[What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people e-mail to try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people e-mail to try to scam them into giving up their information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30983]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13032]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65977]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen a boost of this magnitude. It has to be Golden Globe-oriented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen a boost of this magnitude. It has to be Golden Globe-oriented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made an unbelievable recovery (to get on the green) from where he was ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ sometimes you get the breaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40304]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made an unbelievable recovery (to get on the green) from where he was ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ sometimes you get the breaks and sometimes you don't. That's golf. I couldn't be prouder of Rob and the rest of the entire team. Six under on this course is absolutely phenomenal. Nobody else was under par and we've got some tremendous golfers in this conference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[, HeartMath Discovery Program Time pressure starts to subside when we shift to the heart to find quality of mood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59331]]></link><description><![CDATA[, HeartMath Discovery Program Time pressure starts to subside when we shift to the heart to find quality of mood and ease. It's our unmanaged emotions that turn time into an opponent and make life a rat race. Managing time with the heart is the ultimate time management tool. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20246]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13425]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who opens a school door, closes a prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave's the market place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18198]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave's the market place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63794]]></link><description><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory! Arthur C]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che il morire, il vivere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black--nor white so very white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black--nor white so very white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not consolation. It is light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not consolation. It is light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were witnesses. We know who did this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were witnesses. We know who did this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547]]></link><description><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42682]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. We would have won the Mister Friendly contest out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12118]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear,  As a matter they had no concern in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18992]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear,  As a matter they had no concern in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of confidence. I have a lot of faith in the fact that Tommy and I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of confidence. I have a lot of faith in the fact that Tommy and I will be found not guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded deer leaps highest,I've heard the hunter tell;'Tis but the ecstasy of death,And then the brake is still.The smitten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded deer leaps highest,I've heard the hunter tell;'Tis but the ecstasy of death,And then the brake is still.The smitten rock that gushes,The trampled steel that springs,,A cheek is always redderJust where the hectic stingsMirth is mail of anguish,In which its cautious armLest anybody spy the bloodAnd, you're hurt exclaim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are many, but the truth is one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are many, but the truth is one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627</guid></item></channel></rss>