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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate mystery is one's own self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate mystery is one's own self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean:rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars.. only by great masters trod, only written on by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean:rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars.. only by great masters trod, only written on by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A credulous thing is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A credulous thing is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've taken a position of maintaining a confidentiality on the project out of respect for the Singapore government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35914]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've taken a position of maintaining a confidentiality on the project out of respect for the Singapore government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which hasopened for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway.  ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12960]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway. ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that I can't have I want,  And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that I can't have I want,  And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't,  And what I have to do I hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53075]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26332]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, in the middle snow fall zone we could have up to 50 percent more deer, and in southern areas where we have a lot of agriculture in the landscape, perhaps around 15 percent fewer deer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and wewho fail to prevent them must share ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and wewho fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition, the deceased was not the best at saying when he was going to travel - in other words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34901]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition, the deceased was not the best at saying when he was going to travel - in other words, there are no grounds to criticize the family in this matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11202]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53546]]></link><description><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little with quiet is the onely dyet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49050]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little with quiet is the onely dyet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49050</guid></item></channel></rss>