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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The past should be a springboard not a hammock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past should be a springboard not a hammock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10087]]></link><description><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,   Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1841]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done. -Richard Needham.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any bidder, Smith & Johnson was required to secure services of a bonding company in the role of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any bidder, Smith & Johnson was required to secure services of a bonding company in the role of an insurance company. If for whatever reason the contractor is unable to perform, the bonding company steps in and takes over responsibility for the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60293]]></link><description><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Of this he wrote to James Madison: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd;  And soon as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd;  And soon as a dance has come to a close,   Another begins, and each merrily goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43364]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned to shy away from speculation and just go out on the field and do what I can do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned to shy away from speculation and just go out on the field and do what I can do. The rest is out of my control. You'll drive yourself crazy speculating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beat That My Heart Skipped, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beat That My Heart Skipped,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was also involved in the destruction of Kuwait, looting, pillage, killing, torturing, and taking hostages in Kuwait during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29835]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was also involved in the destruction of Kuwait, looting, pillage, killing, torturing, and taking hostages in Kuwait during the invasion of '91,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that after they get their degrees, they'll make their home and careers back in Texas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that after they get their degrees, they'll make their home and careers back in Texas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36599]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53156]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather ride on an asse that carries me, then a horse that throwes me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49502]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather ride on an asse that carries me, then a horse that throwes me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20292]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61361]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,   While those unhappy partners of you kind    Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,     And ask their humble dole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately if the cost goes up ... over some period of time, the jewelry industry would need to pass that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately if the cost goes up ... over some period of time, the jewelry industry would need to pass that through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been living in the States for eight years so this was just a matter of paperwork. She fits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30052]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been living in the States for eight years so this was just a matter of paperwork. She fits perfectly in the U.S. which makes me realize there's not much difference between people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36212]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to finalise this issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,  And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,   While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,    "Polly!--Polly!--The cows are in the corn!     Oh, where's Polly?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme  In misery; such joy ambition finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50663]]></link><description><![CDATA[With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme  In misery; such joy ambition finds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got stronger as the game went on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got stronger as the game went on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,   Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His SonsA father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His SonsA father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done so, he placed the faggot into the hands of each of them in succession, and ordered them to break it in pieces. They tried with all their strength, and were not able to do it. He next opened the faggot, took the sticks separately, one by one, and again put them into his sons' hands, upon which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these words: My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has surrendered himself to it knows that the Way ends on the Cross -- even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8282]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has surrendered himself to it knows that the Way ends on the Cross -- even when it is leading him through the jubilation of Gennesaret or the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven's help is better than early rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven's help is better than early rising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30691</guid></item></channel></rss>