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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sun comes up, I have morals again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sun comes up, I have morals again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16520]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46343]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's rapid economic g rowth has resulted in tremendous progress in reducing poverty and improving the lives of people gradually, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41090]]></link><description><![CDATA[China's rapid economic g rowth has resulted in tremendous progress in reducing poverty and improving the lives of people gradually,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17151]]></link><description><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. [Ger., Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. [Ger., Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann gehen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality oflife that's far below what you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I date this girl for two years, and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I date this girl for two years, and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every pang that rends the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every pang that rends the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous  With her abundance; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous  With her abundance; she, good cateress,   Means her provision only to the good,    That live according to her sober laws,     And holy dictate of spare temperance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's only meaningful to the extent that it doesn't support the notion that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33985]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's only meaningful to the extent that it doesn't support the notion that the family thinks the sale of the company is imminent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no road of flowers leading to glory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no road of flowers leading to glory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every penny extra we put in is going to add to that $300,000 that we were over (to start with). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every penny extra we put in is going to add to that $300,000 that we were over (to start with).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good fathers make good sons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good fathers make good sons]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was lucky with my tire choices, but this afternoon I made a couple of mistakes. I'm trying to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31709]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was lucky with my tire choices, but this afternoon I made a couple of mistakes. I'm trying to play it safe. Second is good, but I'm sure the others will be pushing hard tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a life of sin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a life of sin as a life of pleasure; they have pictured virtue as self-sacrifice, austerity as religion. Even in everyday life we meet with worthy people who seem to think that whatever is pleasant must be wrong, that the true spirit of religion is crabbed, sour, and gloomy; that the bright, sunny, radiant nature which surrounds us is an evil and not a blessing, -- a temptation devised by the Spirit of Evil and not one of the greatest delights showered on us in such profusion by the Author of all Good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tone of campaigning in the last week has gone sour. There's been mudslinging and some uncalled for utterances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tone of campaigning in the last week has gone sour. There's been mudslinging and some uncalled for utterances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several years ago and have watched it grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22496</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[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50686]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do itnow. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12575]]></link><description><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships arebuilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22780]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships arebuilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22780</guid></item></channel></rss>