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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547]]></link><description><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59706]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one gather around me,   To bid me good-night and be kissed;    On, the little white arms that encircle     My neck in their tender embrace      Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven,       Shedding sunshine of love on my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46092]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48837]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26663]]></link><description><![CDATA[We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40059]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi soldiers have told the Marines what the imams have blasted over loudspeakersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â°calls to rise up and attack the Americans. But, under strict orders, the Marines may not enter mosques or schools. They don't like it.] What I'd give to be able to look in there, ... You know they're hiding something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42252]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there really isn't any threat of inflation out there. Remember all those terrible surprises we used to get on Fridays? It's about time the bond market got a good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also know all the clubs in the Premiership that blanked me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41909]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also know all the clubs in the Premiership that blanked me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She didn't have any legal leg to stand on. And she took me to court, saying that I libeled her. There's absolutely no libel in the chapter on her. She was the mistress of Joe Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53951]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18874]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain,  And on the summer winds are rolled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain,  And on the summer winds are rolled   Its waves of emerald and gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18028]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42115]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income tax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor grip,   Let that aye be your border.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59187]]></link><description><![CDATA[When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60381]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la notre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adults are obsolete children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adults are obsolete children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole discord of this world consists in discords. [Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole discord of this world consists in discords. [Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26470</guid></item></channel></rss>