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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61287]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66888]]></link><description><![CDATA[ext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the path of true democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3715]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet meat must have sour sauce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet meat must have sour sauce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place of Islam in public life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54805]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54093]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16162]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22038]]></link><description><![CDATA[I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason I'm doing this is to bring awareness, so people can do something. When I came to this country, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason I'm doing this is to bring awareness, so people can do something. When I came to this country, people did not know about Sudan, but we went to the White House, and now there is no more fighting in the southern part of Sudan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching, Sing like nobody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching, Sing like nobody's listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by  When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by  When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25986]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to play with more confidence and more urgency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish. When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61466]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greene wood makes a hott fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greene wood makes a hott fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- it lies in a strategic valley,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? For he partly begs  To be desired to give. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? For he partly begs  To be desired to give. It much would please him   That of his fortunes you should make a staff    To lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52153</guid></item></channel></rss>