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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20164]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   I should cut off the nobles for their lands,    Desire his jewels, and this other's house,     And my more-having would be as a sauce      To make me hunger more, that I should forge       Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,        Destroying them for wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in excess is opposed to nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in excess is opposed to nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076]]></link><description><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20652]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who only live to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who only live to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11800]]></link><description><![CDATA[When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66349]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well the busy whisper, circling round,   Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64039]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.  ... Evelyn Underhill November 30, 1996 Andrew the Apostle  With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad luck to be superstitious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27759]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad luck to be superstitious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38877]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so much. I didn't put her photo in a frame where I could see it. I stored it all away. I kept them, and every once in a while I'd look through them for a few minutes and then put it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54733]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those on the inside with sympathies for them. I trust my ability to determine who to mark for examination and so will you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are sad and worried with what has been happening. People need to go to the stadium only to cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are sad and worried with what has been happening. People need to go to the stadium only to cheer for their clubs, to enjoy the (matches).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.--Princes were privileg'd  To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43394]]></link><description><![CDATA[One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.--Princes were privileg'd  To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.   Ah! why will kings forget that they are men,    And men that they are brethren?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22692]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44873]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13792]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second...just so it can hurt a little more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55580]]></link><description><![CDATA[But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64873]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59532</guid></item></channel></rss>