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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62435]]></link><description><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35895]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their income will go up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty brazen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31848]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty brazen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving yourself to someone who doesn't respect you surrenders pieces of your soul that you'll never get back... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving yourself to someone who doesn't respect you surrenders pieces of your soul that you'll never get back...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27955]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits result from resisting temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits result from resisting temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33183]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of theheart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of theheart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but thecertainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44954]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28502]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52647]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private victories precede public victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private victories precede public victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47645]]></link><description><![CDATA[...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain him with his lady's fan. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain him with his lady's fan. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9514]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of knowledge in Canada about how to make great ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of knowledge in Canada about how to make great ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48408]]></link><description><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our children's children will hear a good story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our children's children will hear a good story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families. "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeding is plant racism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weeding is plant racism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will sever the hands that attempt to touch any ballot box in order to sabotage the vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will sever the hands that attempt to touch any ballot box in order to sabotage the vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2158]]></link><description><![CDATA[An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16171]]></link><description><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.   Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16171</guid></item></channel></rss>