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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11337]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61395]]></link><description><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22750]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51157]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2134]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muhammad does not believe in violence, Muhammad does not believe in punishment. He is the role model of all Muslims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Muhammad does not believe in violence, Muhammad does not believe in punishment. He is the role model of all Muslims, and he was defamed and attacked in an unfair, inaccurate way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47282]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just fell in love with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just fell in love with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world as seen through the window of an insane asylum is the same world as seen from the window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world as seen through the window of an insane asylum is the same world as seen from the window of a dentist's office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55178]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/382]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I embrace the Nerd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I embrace the Nerd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mix them with my brains, sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mix them with my brains, sir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40119]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report is complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst find the color of thy wing,    The hue of May.     Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why,      Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring?       Whither away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,  Coincident, exhibit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,  Coincident, exhibit lucid proof   That he is honest in the sacred cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58674]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What thin partitions sense from thought divide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What thin partitions sense from thought divide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if she should sing by day   When every goose is cackling, would be thought    No better a musician than the wren.     How many thing by season seasoned are      To their right praise and true perfection!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. Andwhen you live it people may think you're crazy. It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. Andwhen you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfullysaid that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianityas by one who practices it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . . So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decrees was given at Shushan the palace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46120]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57616]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20059]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20059</guid></item></channel></rss>