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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History belongs to the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19351]]></link><description><![CDATA[History belongs to the winner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26125</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/26696]]></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/26696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the swallows homeward fly, When the roses scattered lie,  When from neither hill or dale,   Chants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4234]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the swallows homeward fly, When the roses scattered lie,  When from neither hill or dale,   Chants the silvery nightingale:    In these works my bleeding heart     Would to thee its brief impart;      When I thus thy image lose       Can I, ah! can I, e'er know repose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those graceful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main,  And flattens, as he runs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those graceful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main,  And flattens, as he runs, the fair campagne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24963]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The command of custome is great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The command of custome is great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we need an answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope! thou nurse of young desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope! thou nurse of young desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23567]]></link><description><![CDATA[No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in the Water, 1994.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51943]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40321]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   If Religion has raised us into a new world, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   If Religion has raised us into a new world, if it has filled us with new ends of life, if it has taken possession of our hearts, and altered the whole turn of our minds, if it has changed all our ideas of things, given us a new set of hopes and fears, and taught us to live by the realities of an invisible world -- then we may humbly hope that we are true followers of the Holy Jesus, and such as may rejoice in the Day of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40945]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in Game 4, freshman Balee Cox served four consecutive points. That shifted the momentum, gave us back the lead and we finished it out from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17906</guid></item></channel></rss>