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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful.(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful.(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14600]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54386]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your friend with his faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your friend with his faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[anonymous fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43860]]></link><description><![CDATA[anonymous fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53046]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VAT is levied according to national laws, so the nine countries would have to amend their legislation accordingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41586]]></link><description><![CDATA[VAT is levied according to national laws, so the nine countries would have to amend their legislation accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62550]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same blessed hope of eternal life? ... Why do we not, as becomes brethren, dwell together in unity, but are so apt to quarrel and break out into heats, to crumble into sects and parties, to divide and separate from one another upon every trifling occasion? Give me leave... in the name of our dear Lord ... to recommend to you this new commandment of his, that ye love one another. Which is almost a new commandment still, and hardly the worse for wearing, so seldom is it put on, and so little hath it been practiced among Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[lovers alone wear sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25792]]></link><description><![CDATA[lovers alone wear sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the reason they think it's softer because they're hitting 8-irons [yesterday] and they were hitting 6-irons there [Wednesday]. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the reason they think it's softer because they're hitting 8-irons [yesterday] and they were hitting 6-irons there [Wednesday]. We haven't watered any of the greens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;    Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;     He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;      With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,        Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58070]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood   Then surely I was born.    With monstrous head and sickening cry     And ears like errant wings,      The devil's walking parody       On all four-footed things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3077]]></link><description><![CDATA["For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. Andthe harms we do, we do to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows,   Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks,    Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;     And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,      An alligator stuffed, and other skins       Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves        A beggarly account of empty boxes,         Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,          Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses           Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46368]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882   No one is safe by his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to God that the kind of security arrangements we have done today, we will not need to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to God that the kind of security arrangements we have done today, we will not need to do in the future,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they handled it very well and last Friday they played it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32525</guid></item></channel></rss>