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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and modesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What hath God wrought? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What hath God wrought?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27640]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, he'll hang himself. But how much rope will it take?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obscenities of recent days may well be designed toundermine the peace process. They must not be allowed to doso, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obscenities of recent days may well be designed toundermine the peace process. They must not be allowed to doso,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lady doth protest too much, me thinks ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lady doth protest too much, me thinks]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where trash cans are ugly, weather-beaten with peeling paint. If we make them look like works of art, people will treat them as such. People would be encouraged to observe them as art that is also utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are taking some comfort in results and a feeling that the economy is getting better, but there's still some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36837]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are taking some comfort in results and a feeling that the economy is getting better, but there's still some caution. We need to see more evidence of a sustainable recovery. We need companies to start seeing profits more through top-line growth than just cost-cutting measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when invited out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11882]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle. But when he was compelled to grind instead of serving in the wars, he bewailed his change of fortune and called to mind his former state, saying, Ah! Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle. Forbear, said the Miller to him, harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the movement from darkness to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the movement from darkness to light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. [Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris  Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo   Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were planning on the lowest figures projected. This [delay] doesn't affect us. It just delays your chance to start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34685]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were planning on the lowest figures projected. This [delay] doesn't affect us. It just delays your chance to start looking at [free-agent] players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is the science of being totally prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is the science of being totally prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002]]></link><description><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all   The shipping there.    --But how is't done?     --I'll show you, sir.      It is automa, runs under water       With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail        Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles         Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sheep in sheep's clothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11522]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sheep in sheep's clothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49132]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands the shadow of a mighty name. [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50589]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands the shadow of a mighty name. [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32534]]></link><description><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air,  Like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air,  Like to a good old age released from care,   Journeying, in long serenity, away.    In such a bright, late quiet, would that I     Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks,      And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,       And music of kind voices ever nigh;        And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,         Pass silently from men as thou dost pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there is such confusion in my powers   As, after some oration fairly spoke    By a beloved prince, there doth appear     Among the buzzing pleased multitude,      Where every something being blent together       Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy        Expressed and not expressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art the ruins of the noblest man   That ever lived in the tide of times.    Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11336]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14775]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34218]]></link><description><![CDATA[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My wife and I wanted to have more time to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46260]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34230</guid></item></channel></rss>