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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord which is our constant lot. That is why we can study everything else in nature much more surely than we can study ourselves. With ourselves, all we have to go on is an occasional glimpse of some small part of the truth, and we must be content with that, knowing that we are truly known by Him who alone knows us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47445]]></link><description><![CDATA[To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our own level, or below it, is, I think, the distinct notion of envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first one to quarrel, nor the last to make up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first one to quarrel, nor the last to make up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is down,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55463]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew the way (the Cougars) played they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew the way (the Cougars) played they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battling. We never lost our confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28363</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[I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it is I ween   As ever on beauty's breast was seen;    There's nothing at all but love to pay;     Take it and wear it, but only stay!      Ah! Sir Hunter, what excellent taste!       I'm not--in such--particular--haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66641]]></link><description><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money talks — but credit has an echo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money talks — but credit has an echo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's gentle wine!    Nature waits upon thee still,     And thy verdant cup does fill;      'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread,       Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64796]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solution of every problem is another problem ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solution of every problem is another problem]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of the eternal, glorious King.    On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;     Blessings are plentiful and rife.      More plentiful than hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53626]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56828]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dodgerest of all the dodgers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dodgerest of all the dodgers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still obviously closely monitoring this. At this point, we still don't know exactly what's going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still obviously closely monitoring this. At this point, we still don't know exactly what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1666]]></link><description><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground;  They are the darling violets,   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground;  They are the darling violets,   That I in nosegays bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one can say 'It lightens.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62240]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bee beloved is above all bargaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bee beloved is above all bargaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15059</guid></item></channel></rss>