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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,  That men may rise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,  That men may rise on stepping stones   Or their dead selves to higher things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That lineup doesn't have any weak spots. The bench is full of stars. When you're pitching against them, you look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That lineup doesn't have any weak spots. The bench is full of stars. When you're pitching against them, you look at the on-deck circle and the guy there is even better than the one you're facing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dollar will weaken. We bought some euros below $1.20. We took advantage of the dip in the euro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dollar will weaken. We bought some euros below $1.20. We took advantage of the dip in the euro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17184]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who wish to sing always find a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who wish to sing always find a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes:   Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64155]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now we have bought the film back and it will be shown in Paris in the original version for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32687]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now we have bought the film back and it will be shown in Paris in the original version for the first time in the next couple of months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must go back to nature for information. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must go back to nature for information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57238]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22539]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I think today ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I think today we just couldn't get them in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23879]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the second quarter and they really struggled shooting the ball. Obviously, that made things easier for us. We didn't change anything. We went with our game plan. We just did a better job executing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live at the edge of the miraculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21848]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live at the edge of the miraculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54816]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44052]]></link><description><![CDATA[So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day;  But why the people call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day;  But why the people call it so,   Nor I, nor they themselves, do know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any belief worth having must survive doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any belief worth having must survive doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62311]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too;  For no form of a god, and no fashion   Man has made in his desperate passion,    But is worthy some worship of mine;     Not too hot with a gross belief,      Nor yet too cold with pride,       I will bow me down where my brothers bow,        Humble, but open eyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved most curiously;   It is a little picture painted well.    What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the tear that fell     From a great poet's hidden ecstasy;      A two-edged sword, a star, a song--ah me!       Sometimes a heavy tolling funeral bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they happen to notice kids being crazy ... they go to the parents and tell them about the show, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they happen to notice kids being crazy ... they go to the parents and tell them about the show, ... We've had a few families say, `Oh my God. Thank you for coming over. Yes, we need your help.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33498]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15567]]></link><description><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38956</guid></item></channel></rss>