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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA['Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44807]]></link><description><![CDATA['Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may appear a low-level crime, but it's the kind of crime that seriously affects the lives of people in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may appear a low-level crime, but it's the kind of crime that seriously affects the lives of people in Edinburgh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55406]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!  Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!  Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus,   Or titillate the palate of Silenus!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44630]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel that something is wrong with you or that you need to be fixed, no one is perfect ..everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel that something is wrong with you or that you need to be fixed, no one is perfect ..everyone is different for a specific reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13788]]></link><description><![CDATA[All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45847]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The open door tempts a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The open door tempts a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kim is a great all-around athlete and a very versatile player. She will see playing time on the front line. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kim is a great all-around athlete and a very versatile player. She will see playing time on the front line. She is quick and agile, which contributes to her finesse as a player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45104]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They haven't notified us yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41589]]></link><description><![CDATA[They haven't notified us yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark as pitch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark as pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is challenging and beguiling to sense something inside, put it on paper (or carve it in stone), and then step back and see how much has got lost in the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forever is composed of nows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forever is composed of nows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31797]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman was God's second mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman was God's second mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[, The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59325]]></link><description><![CDATA[, The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59325</guid></item></channel></rss>