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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22612]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me In weary ways, where heavy shadows be. And "by still waters" ? No, not always so; Ofttimes the heavy tempests round me blow, And o'er my soul the waves and billows go. But when the storm beats loudest, and I cry Aloud for help, the Master standeth by, And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I." So, where He leads me, I can safely go, And in the blest hereafter I shall know Why, in His wisdom, He hath led me so.  ... Anonymous    July 24, 1998  Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  If thou shalt remain faithful and zealous in labour, doubt not that God shall be faithful and bountiful in rewarding thee. It is thy duty to have a good hope that thou wilt attain the victory: but thou must not fall into security lest thou become slothful or lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64381]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,   By that same token,    An' come to stop those reckless vows,     Would soon be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great day, especially with the weather. First the heat, then the thunder, then the sun again. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40374]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great day, especially with the weather. First the heat, then the thunder, then the sun again. For the overall standings it is great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral   Made the attraction, and the black the woe;    There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18228]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a second self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  One little hour! and then, away they speed   On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,    To meet no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows you that people actually can see that he's not just a number --that he was a man with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39479]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows you that people actually can see that he's not just a number --that he was a man with a family that needs comforting. Even after a year, people are reaching out and that's nice because while our lives go on, Mike's life doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37026]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18104]]></link><description><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.-Henry David Thoreau-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58173]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last year, we didn't do that. We want more this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62833]]></link><description><![CDATA[To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen it on every line, on almost every train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen it on every line, on almost every train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11064]]></link><description><![CDATA[We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12373]]></link><description><![CDATA[All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With foreheads villanous low. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56087]]></link><description><![CDATA[With foreheads villanous low. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of good players here, so I'm happy to be where I am. After beating the No. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36697]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of good players here, so I'm happy to be where I am. After beating the No. 4 seed in the first round, I've grown in confidence. I've learned how to fight for the important points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally wrote 'rarely' instead of 'really'. But I wanted to use it, I didn't want to cross it out, so I wrote 'I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot of sh*t you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator.' I know this letter took a harsh turn right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity, like murder, will out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity, like murder, will out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria were brought into Italy all the sorts of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2951]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria were brought into Italy all the sorts of their Mala, which we interprete apples, and might signify no more at first; but were afterwards applied to many other foreign fruits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2951</guid></item></channel></rss>