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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Good men prefer to be accountable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good men prefer to be accountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)  And I met with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)  And I met with a ballad, I can't say where,   That wholly consisted of lines like these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32655]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around and make an impression. It's nice for that to happen here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get their attention when I told them I was sesquipedalian. One look down at my feet usually dispelled the deception though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Typically, they look for at least 100-dB isolation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Typically, they look for at least 100-dB isolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is bestÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â donations can be sent to the church office for funneling to and through Presbyterian Disaster ReliefÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is bestÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â donations can be sent to the church office for funneling to and through Presbyterian Disaster ReliefÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â which has issued a $10 million appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally  By rammin' Scriptur' in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54915]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally  By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun,   An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15704]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21275]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63652]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1630]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60976]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45992]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33333]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with these kitties is that they had been in cages for so long, we recommended the foster person to let them run and play. Both of the cats ran for two days straight. They were so active; they were a ball of energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16661]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so a teammate could wrestle in the region. He could have had an easier time qualifying for the state at 189, but you have to admire someone who puts their teammates first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38203]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61185]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63444]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27092]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-  If there's a hole in a' your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-  If there's a hole in a' your coats,   I rede you tent it:    A chield's amang you takin notes,     And, faith, he'll prent it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22805]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda patimur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van may have fallen asleep,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not do what you would undo if caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not do what you would undo if caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end of wisdom, the new law, is, "Thou shalt." To be Christian is to be old? Not a bit of it. To be Christian is to be reborn, and free, and unafraid, and immortally young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42191</guid></item></channel></rss>