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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48828]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1881]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The portions of some books really worth notice are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51831]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The portions of some books really worth notice are few and far between.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to be uber-sexy, ... I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to be uber-sexy, ... I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby fat. I want to look nice and feel attractive. ... I grew my hair out and got it lightened for the simple reason that I'm pretty gray, and this means I don't have to go to the hairdresser as often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a myriad of immigration laws that, when looked at through the common sense of justice, don't add up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42182]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a myriad of immigration laws that, when looked at through the common sense of justice, don't add up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the clouds is the sun still shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, where you can actually take a wheelchair, go down ramps and go into the Pacific Ocean and touch the urchins and the starfish. That really impressed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're losing a lot of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're losing a lot of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2543]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469]]></link><description><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36212]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to finalise this issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27739]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65299]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the image of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the image of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   But direct villainy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45924]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53688]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62359</guid></item></channel></rss>