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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,   And the eldest was born half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13630]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a l'eau-rose?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of Chartres much too rough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn to manage your non-efficient thinking and emotions. Just learn to be as conscious of your *mental and emotional energy expenditures and returns* as you are conscious of your dollar expenditures and returns. Remember the mental and emotional budget sheet. If you *halfway* play with this concept, it can give you a new perspective on energy economy. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory called the reinforcement thesis, which says that people acquire a mental lens or filter at a very young age. As you get older you tend to accept more readily the information that reinforces that view and reject information that contradicts it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64301]]></link><description><![CDATA[All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when a dream transcends to desire and intention is conquered by cupidity, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirabilityÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â is reduced to depravity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is merely gossip ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17879]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is merely gossip]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63751]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A shippe and a woman are ever repairing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong   Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51693</guid></item></channel></rss>