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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to use your agility and try to make him miss, rather than trying to run around him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to use your agility and try to make him miss, rather than trying to run around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23561]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41708]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44454]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34748]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a golfer -- not an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9863]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24247]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a garden-variety situation, ... It's very difficult to think even an organic, naturally-occurring presence could result in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38750]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a garden-variety situation, ... It's very difficult to think even an organic, naturally-occurring presence could result in a concentration that affected the basis for exposure to three people. It's the reason we launched the investigation we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65627]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is a thing of the will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is a thing of the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6089]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for a state response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base the fear of death than fear of life.   O Britain! infamous for suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with regard to it? On which side shall we stand?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12494]]></link><description><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must subdue at length,   Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29809]]></link><description><![CDATA[This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to the enemy's doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity. . . . I love the T-shirt as an anti-status symbol, putting rich and poor on the same level in a sheath of white cotton that cancels the distinctions of caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63870</guid></item></channel></rss>