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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate questioning, but I love wrestling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate questioning, but I love wrestling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60001]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants, and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32994]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants, and that's bad news for China and Pakistan. This creates suspicion, which is what you don't want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61638]]></link><description><![CDATA[As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach to 1st classthey really beat up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot different than my freshman year. I just had to play quarterback. This year I have to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38777]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot different than my freshman year. I just had to play quarterback. This year I have to know the defensive and offensive plays, all the special teams; there's not room for error. I have to know a lot. It's kind of fun getting to play a lot of positions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can call her an outdoor girl if she has the bloom of youth on her cheeks and the cheeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28107]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can call her an outdoor girl if she has the bloom of youth on her cheeks and the cheeks of youth in her bloomers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60558]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your prices have historically been the low prices in the state. It's painful sometimes when it changes that much, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your prices have historically been the low prices in the state. It's painful sometimes when it changes that much, but you've enjoyed the best prices for about a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;  But round some corner of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;  But round some corner of the streets of life   They of a sudden greet us with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is about appreciating what you have and waiting for what you will get. I believed being positive goes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is about appreciating what you have and waiting for what you will get. I believed being positive goes a long way!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolved minde hath no cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolved minde hath no cares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discouragement is the opposite of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discouragement is the opposite of courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we are getting close to the end of the season it doesn't make sense to press to hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we are getting close to the end of the season it doesn't make sense to press to hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Measure. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55384]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26389]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, to fall into the hands of God, to scape the hands of men: When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a gift- even if it sucks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la discrecion.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53621]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30858]]></link><description><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't come up with the key hits. And we weren't mentally prepared on defense. To win, you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't come up with the key hits. And we weren't mentally prepared on defense. To win, you have to play every play, and we didn't do that today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have been acquainted, from your youth, with the wrestlings of God, being cast from furnace to furnace; knowing, if you were not dear to God, and if your health did not require so much of him, he would not spend as much physic upon you. All the brethren and sisters of Christ must be conformed to his image in suffering, Rom. viii.17, and some do more fully resemble the copy than others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25961]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,   And think it kindness to his majesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--   He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.    [Ger., Wer nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass,     Wer nicht die kummervollen Nachte      Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,       Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Machte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very pleased to watch her, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very pleased to watch her,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from the city. I could care less what the zoning is out in the country, frankly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from the city. I could care less what the zoning is out in the country, frankly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24810</guid></item></channel></rss>