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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53078]]></link><description><![CDATA[A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in a rush to get divorced because of this health coverage issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in a rush to get divorced because of this health coverage issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23188]]></link><description><![CDATA[As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving myself harmless." I promise thee, Christ will not hear their excuse; for He himself suffered harm for our sakes, and for our salvation was put to extreme death. I wis, if it had pleased Him, He might have saved us and never felt pain; but in suffering pains and death He did give us example, and teach us how we should do one for another, as He did for us all; for, as He saith himself, "he that will be mine, let him deny himself, and follow me, in bearing my cross and suffering my pains." Wherefore we must needs suffer pain with Christ to do our neighbor good, as well with the body and all his members, as with heart and mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5514]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;   Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,    But an eternal now shall ever last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62107]]></link><description><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58097]]></link><description><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are awesome players and good athletes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See he doesn't respect you. He said attorneys can reach a better decision. His ideas seem liberal and this race ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32432]]></link><description><![CDATA[See he doesn't respect you. He said attorneys can reach a better decision. His ideas seem liberal and this race is about conservative issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is becoming the family of last resort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is becoming the family of last resort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next day is never so good as the day before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next day is never so good as the day before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The covetous are always in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The covetous are always in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain traders in gas and kerosene have tried to increase fuel prices.... The prices of liquefied gas and kerosene should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain traders in gas and kerosene have tried to increase fuel prices.... The prices of liquefied gas and kerosene should stay at the same level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to win anything-a race, your self, your life-you have togo a little berserk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22708]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to win anything-a race, your self, your life-you have togo a little berserk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  When they inquire into predestination, they are penetrating the sacred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  When they inquire into predestination, they are penetrating the sacred precincts of divine wisdom. If anyone with carefree assurance breaks into this place, he will not succeed in satisfying his curiosity and he will enter a labyrinth from which he can find no exit. For it is not right for man unrestrainedly to search out things that the Lord has willed to be hidden in Himself; nor is it right for him to investigate from eternity that sublime wisdom, which God would have us revere but not understand, in order that through this also He should fill us with wonder. He has set forth by His Word the secrets of His will that He has decided to reveal to us. These He decided to reveal in so far as He foresaw that they would concern and benefit us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16661]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59951]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes never late who comes repentant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53820]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes never late who comes repentant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47176</guid></item></channel></rss>