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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Acorns were good till bread was found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acorns were good till bread was found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen recontre erkennen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the heart of an angry crowd, their enthusiasm soured suddenly into a growling muttering. He applied it confidently to a man who, under the inspiration of His friendship, had broken with his sorry past and his old selfish, unclean ways, and was doing what he could to put things right. Now that, He said, is what I call a saved man. Very solemnly He tells us that on the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked the questions we are expecting, but others that will puzzle and startle us. Those folk on the left hand were, as far as we hear, respectable folk; their business books were straight, their home life was kindly, they themselves were clean-living men and women: nothing whatever is laid to their charge excepting this, that they lived in a world needing their help and were too absorbed in something -- what it was, we are not told; it may have been their souls -- to give what aid they could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No better than you should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48514]]></link><description><![CDATA[No better than you should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2072]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58674]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12762]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a 'No', ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28267]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a 'No',]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4167]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32470]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating a show. They wrote these simple, pretty crappy rock songs, but they created this huge image and this huge show. It was like this iconic thing, and I think that's really cool. I think that's something that we've always really appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5757]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since earlier this year, the administration has shifted from an ideological approach toward North Korea, which produced nothing but counterproductive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since earlier this year, the administration has shifted from an ideological approach toward North Korea, which produced nothing but counterproductive results, to a realistic, pragmatic approach with interesting results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really disappointed in our blocking out in the first half. We gave up 14 offensive rebounds in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really disappointed in our blocking out in the first half. We gave up 14 offensive rebounds in the first half. I thought our kids played a lot better in the second. We really battled through the kids' sickness throughout the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that he thanks God for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that he thanks God for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66080]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!   The river glideth at his own sweet will.    Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;     And all that mighty heart is lying still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a human look in its swelling breast,   And the gentle curve of its lowly crest;    And I often stop with the fear I feel--     He runs so close to the rapid wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.  [Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47840]]></link><description><![CDATA[What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.  [Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den Augenblick geboren;   Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59846]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our lives, and reveals some interesting trends, such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28984]]></link><description><![CDATA[This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our lives, and reveals some interesting trends, such as the dominance of technology and Internet-based brands. Companies that take a proactive approach to managing their brands are in a much better position to earn respect from their customers, as exemplified by the top-ranked brands on the list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are trying to not show their emotions, but I know they're getting really excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are trying to not show their emotions, but I know they're getting really excited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33489</guid></item></channel></rss>