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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44329]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are heroes in evil as well as in good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19238]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are heroes in evil as well as in good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59903]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39266]]></link><description><![CDATA[This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider an enemy may become a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider an enemy may become a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,   Where peace and hospitality might reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd hear the horn blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29625]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd hear the horn blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61173]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30809]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just wanted to keep the momentum of this season going. A win and we keep moving forward. If we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41871]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just wanted to keep the momentum of this season going. A win and we keep moving forward. If we lose, it cancels out how well we played at Central (a 61-57 win) on Thursday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48112]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29616]]></link><description><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this place into a [non-permanent] contract-hired staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and sunny--   But of all the lunar things that change,    The one that shows most fickle and strange,     And takes the most eccentric range,      Is the moon--so called--of honey!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44146]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action, as by prayer in its season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... a place where they dispense with justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10429]]></link><description><![CDATA[... a place where they dispense with justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46017]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44541]]></link><description><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19871]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9634]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it. -As You Like It. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55643]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just got to show that again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406</guid></item></channel></rss>