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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25101]]></link><description><![CDATA[To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9150]]></link><description><![CDATA[At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and wewho fail to prevent them must share ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and wewho fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand.   - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand.   - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50244]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will do all we can to solve the issue by peaceful means, but one of the ways to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will do all we can to solve the issue by peaceful means, but one of the ways to do that is to prepare for all scenarios, including military ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9330]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as well now and then not to remember all we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64549]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22996]]></link><description><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5295]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adams first law of survival: Get even first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adams first law of survival: Get even first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to you, as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am;  But as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to you, as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am;  But as good as you are, and as bad as I am,   I am as good as your are, as bad as I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum  Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a lot of information today. I think today is probably a quiet day depending on what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a lot of information today. I think today is probably a quiet day depending on what the stock market does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. Gradually the results of the action manifested themselves, and, seeing them, they perceived what they had really done, and learnt the meaning of the truth revealed in the action. But if, from fear of the consequences, they had checked or forbidden the action, they would have lost this revelation. They would have missed the way to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but small thanks for my labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing at the Blue Iguana ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing at the Blue Iguana]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31439</guid></item></channel></rss>