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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the poetry of the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the poetry of the senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14737]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,   And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was one of the greatest sports moments of my life. It was too cold to enjoy it outside, though. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32977]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was one of the greatest sports moments of my life. It was too cold to enjoy it outside, though. I enjoyed it in the locker room afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some wee short hour ayont the twal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some wee short hour ayont the twal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45352]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine   And sensibilities so fine!    Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell     Forever in my native shell,      Ordained to move when others please,       Not for my own content or ease;        But toss'd and buffeted about,         Now in the water and now out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55554]]></link><description><![CDATA[He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth /the power to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when the sun in all his state, Illumed the eastern skies,  She passed through glory's morning gate,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11162]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when the sun in all his state, Illumed the eastern skies,  She passed through glory's morning gate,   And walked in Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get anything out of them these days. And I am talking about stuff that has historically been readily disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6447]]></link><description><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of the Christian salvation,... the Church itself will not be much enriched by an accession of panic-stricken fugitives from a Personal God. And many unhappy young people are discovering now that Church membership is not the equivalent of being reconciled to God, and a kind of Confirmation is not a substitute for Conversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an excellent problem. It speaks to the success of the arts district. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an excellent problem. It speaks to the success of the arts district.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2484]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on the ivories   Of her pure members as on smoothed keys,    And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14529]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;   Time's noblest offspring is the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.  .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52903]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is love made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is love made visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Vance Walberg (Fresno City College basketball coach) said Jackson was like a man playing against boys. And there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Vance Walberg (Fresno City College basketball coach) said Jackson was like a man playing against boys. And there is no doubt how good Clovis West is, but I thought our players were kind of intimidated and I was disappointed that we didn't compete better. I felt like some of the kids gave up and just went through the motions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to stay out than get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to stay out than get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love -- time is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194</guid></item></channel></rss>