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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34905]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life sofull of meaningful things that you'll hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life sofull of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think aboutfood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29964]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. You need to be able to adjust your set and be flexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By doing cross breeding, you're getting the best of both breeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36421]]></link><description><![CDATA[By doing cross breeding, you're getting the best of both breeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes lots of practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes lots of practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do. If words suffice not, blows must follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an,   Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one really tough guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32269]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one really tough guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19001]]></link><description><![CDATA[One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been a sucker for attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been a sucker for attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do with all your might. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To which is fixed as an aim or butt    Obedience; for so work the honeybees,     Creatures that by a rule in nature teach      The act of order to a peopled kingdom.       They have a king, and officers of sorts,        Where some like magistrates correct at home,         Others like merchants venture trade abroad,          Others like soldiers armed in their stings           Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,            Which pillage they with merry march bring home             To the tent-royal of their emperor,              Who, busied in his majesties, surveys               The singing masons building roofs of gold,                The civil citizens kneading up the honey,                 The poor mechanic porters crowding in                  Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,                   The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum                    Delivering o'er to executors pale                     The lazy yawning drone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39543]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which is absolutely banned, or slide towards illegality by its tacit acceptance that torture is sometimes OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to say how much love, is love but little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2168]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to say how much love, is love but little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22526]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51645]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--   Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65202]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45954]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dressed myself in such humility  That I did pluck allegiance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dressed myself in such humility  That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,   Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths    Even in the presence of the crowned king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6759]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8756]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51379]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is going well. I'm getting a lot of positive interest, and I'm pleased with the interest thus far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is going well. I'm getting a lot of positive interest, and I'm pleased with the interest thus far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21195]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11671]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11671</guid></item></channel></rss>