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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15836]]></link><description><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23746]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You\'re serving people and submitting to God as best you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You\'re serving people and submitting to God as best you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge  Such as none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge  Such as none other hath, when they are known,   They are found shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18116]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66427]]></link><description><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15559]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just playing real solid defensively right now. The kids are rotating really well in our bunt coverage and defensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just playing real solid defensively right now. The kids are rotating really well in our bunt coverage and defensive coverage. Alyssa has really stepped it up, both at the plate and pitching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51185]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,   To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd    Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ice is real hard, it shatters and you can get microscopic shards of ice. You don't want them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34479]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ice is real hard, it shatters and you can get microscopic shards of ice. You don't want them in your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171]]></link><description><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little,   Tight little,    Slight little,     Light little,      Trim little, slim little craft!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think she was able to look at it and think, this isn't just one project; I can group these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think she was able to look at it and think, this isn't just one project; I can group these things together, and we can make all these things happen. She was able to present a bigger package, and that's how it was able to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to be forgotten. To Homer, the dawn was "rosy-fingered"; to Shakespeare, it was "in russet mantle clad"; to Housman, "the ship of sunrise burning". The scientist can explain exactly why the sky looks as it does in the early morning, the physiologist why we perceive as we do. Yet no one suggests that there is no dawn at all, or that its appearance has changed over the centuries, or that any one of these percipients was mad or deceitful. Why should our knowledge of the Creator be less capable of variety and development than our knowledge of any aspect of Creation?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is a damned fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19278]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is a damned fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45876]]></link><description><![CDATA[War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52661]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have any interest in traditional art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have any interest in traditional art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;   And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3275</guid></item></channel></rss>