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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52960]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions about the wine. We consider the event to be classy but casual, meaning you don't have to be a wine aficionado to enjoy this event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2435]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of junk e-mail will come from a social reason, ... One of two things will happen: No one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of junk e-mail will come from a social reason, ... One of two things will happen: No one will check their e-mail boxes, or junkers will know no one is reading their e-mail. Either way, the message is not being delivered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna charta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna charta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for his temple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Did not I, through faith, conquer kingdoms, apply justice, obtain promises, stop the mouths of lions, put out raging fires, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6726]]></link><description><![CDATA["Did not I, through faith, conquer kingdoms, apply justice, obtain promises, stop the mouths of lions, put out raging fires, escape the edge of the sword, win strength out of weakness, become valiant in war, and put foreign armies to flight? Was I not a man of faith and a man of action in one skin? Why are the faithful so afraid of deeds for fear they should fall into 'Justification by works'? And why is Thy Church so uncomfortable with its men of action? And why do men of spirit so often have to work apart from, and even against it? Are there no longer kingdoms to be conquered, injustice to be destroyed, promises to be obtained? The Son of David is a warrior still. Must He tread the winepress alone?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[because that was the only way they felt they could survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33571]]></link><description><![CDATA[because that was the only way they felt they could survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that was our best game of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36150]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that was our best game of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61605]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15179]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60261]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T.  On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35152]]></link><description><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17511]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6705</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/65542]]></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/65542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,  That starts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58786]]></link><description><![CDATA[What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,  That starts at once--bright pure--from Pity's mine,   Already polish'd by the hand divine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good analogy is worth three hours discussion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1933]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6928]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25350]]></link><description><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25350</guid></item></channel></rss>