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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in the twining bait,   And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.    Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!     How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer you leave it in checking, the more likely it will vanish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer you leave it in checking, the more likely it will vanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55890]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20381]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to sell to tenants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to sell to tenants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people age 25 to 30 don't have the capital or cash to afford fertility treatments, but that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people age 25 to 30 don't have the capital or cash to afford fertility treatments, but that's the age when they have a much greater chance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris wrapped in night! half nebulousThe moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs..A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paris wrapped in night! half nebulousThe moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs..A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the vapor's floating scarves, the SeineTrembles, mysterious, like a magic mirrorCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a really good save off a direct kick. They bent the ball around a (defensive) wall and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40239]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a really good save off a direct kick. They bent the ball around a (defensive) wall and he made a diving save into the corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29765]]></link><description><![CDATA[They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are periods when I'm out of it and have to stay in bed for a couple of days, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37619]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are periods when I'm out of it and have to stay in bed for a couple of days,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon,  And please myself with, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon,  And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is one of nature's masterpieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20022]]></link><description><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12917]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66378]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;  But made a trail all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;  But made a trail all bent askew,   A crooked trail as all calves do.    . . . .     And men two centuries and a half      Trod in the footsteps of that calf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a hero without love for mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19269]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a hero without love for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44866]]></link><description><![CDATA[My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It happens, ... It's happened a couple of times to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happens, ... It's happened a couple of times to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to editing scientific information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45133]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,  Hush, ye will say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,  Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!   This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there    The columns of the heavenly palaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2394]]></link><description><![CDATA[America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Serv. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56082]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Serv.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year was the first time I actually participated in Halloween. I dressed up as a pimp, and my sister ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year was the first time I actually participated in Halloween. I dressed up as a pimp, and my sister was my bitch. We had to walk down Sunset Boulevard because we couldn't get a ride to the party, and everyone was sticking their heads out of their cars and yelling at us. It was great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28268]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, and it showed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin'   And Lady Morgan making tay.    For 'tis the capital of the finest nation,     With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod,      Fightin' like devils for conciliation,       And hatin' each other for the Love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music - not only across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35219]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music - not only across genres but across generations as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43379]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43379</guid></item></channel></rss>