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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25997]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the swift advantage of the hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the swift advantage of the hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5891]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not without art, but yet to Nature true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not without art, but yet to Nature true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12706]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not allow the money to drive the train. Do not allow deadlines to drive the train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not allow the money to drive the train. Do not allow deadlines to drive the train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2239]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may have just enough shadow   To temper the glare of the sun;    I would pray God to guard them from evil,     But my prayer would bound back to myself:      Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner,       But a sinner must pray for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15104]]></link><description><![CDATA[To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21536]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richie is about two weeks from throwing off the mound. Pauly is a little behind him, probably a month away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richie is about two weeks from throwing off the mound. Pauly is a little behind him, probably a month away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22622]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it wasnot that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps we will drink a drop of champagne. This is an undeniable victory for a social movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps we will drink a drop of champagne. This is an undeniable victory for a social movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the pleasant land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team has always had better results in Corsica than in Spain so we're optimistic of a good overall result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team has always had better results in Corsica than in Spain so we're optimistic of a good overall result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8820]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her after the race if the male jockeys ever give her a roasting again she can truthfully say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her after the race if the male jockeys ever give her a roasting again she can truthfully say she can beat them with a leg in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43561]]></link><description><![CDATA[No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   And a star or two beside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49330]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52315]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24288]]></link><description><![CDATA[A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44380</guid></item></channel></rss>