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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell   Themselves when they be felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the people's judgment always true:   The most may err as grossly as the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toughest thing about it was I couldn't come to grips with it. I couldn't reason it out in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41333]]></link><description><![CDATA[The toughest thing about it was I couldn't come to grips with it. I couldn't reason it out in my mind. It was very difficult. I didn't agree with it. I don't think I ever will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as there is life there is danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as there is life there is danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A greedy father has thieves for children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A greedy father has thieves for children]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeble dart short of its mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51778]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeble dart short of its mark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humanitarian issues have provided an opportunity to the two governments to rise above their historical differences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humanitarian issues have provided an opportunity to the two governments to rise above their historical differences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20380]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never confuse movement with action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never confuse movement with action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21442]]></link><description><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52620]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does everything well. He always wants to get better. That's the sign of a good player. Coming in as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does everything well. He always wants to get better. That's the sign of a good player. Coming in as a freshman, he was really talented and now he's a much better player because of all the work he's put in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will cancel the results of any polling center, inside or outside of Iraq, if it has been proven that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will cancel the results of any polling center, inside or outside of Iraq, if it has been proven that there was fraud in there. To this day, I don't think there is a reason to cancel the entire elections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest,  Such as I love; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15594]]></link><description><![CDATA[This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest,  Such as I love; and you among the store,   One more, most welcome, makes my number more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17592]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to come to terms with the realization that one small man could change the course of history with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to come to terms with the realization that one small man could change the course of history with just a couple of shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49097]]></link><description><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3404]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; and teach me how   To name the bigger light, and how the less,    That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee     And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle,      The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60744]]></link><description><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will be surety, shall pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49408]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will be surety, shall pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seal went into the restaurant and was askedby the waiter if he would like a Canadian Clubon the rocks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seal went into the restaurant and was askedby the waiter if he would like a Canadian Clubon the rocks. He repliedno thank you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest. [Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversus infimos justitiam esse servandam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest. [Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversus infimos justitiam esse servandam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to the false, error and truth alike,   Error is worse than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread;  Thou hast proud fanes above   Thy mighty dread. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread;  Thou hast proud fanes above   Thy mighty dread.    Yet wears thy Tiber's shore     A mournful mien:--      Rome, Rome, thou art no more       As thou hast been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After enlightenment, the laundry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22123]]></link><description><![CDATA[After enlightenment, the laundry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge  Such as none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge  Such as none other hath, when they are known,   They are found shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16824</guid></item></channel></rss>