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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on the weeds   To make them ranker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and not give anything away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64146]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a song. Love is the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a song. Love is the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey to be produced, and yet offer the Attic bee nothing but Corsican thyme?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59804]]></link><description><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What power had Ibefore I learned to yield?Shatter me Great Wind!I shall possess the field!Richard Wilbura stanza from his poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26588]]></link><description><![CDATA[What power had Ibefore I learned to yield?Shatter me Great Wind!I shall possess the field!Richard Wilbura stanza from his poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23089]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em  Talk us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em  Talk us to silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23887]]></link><description><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47335]]></link><description><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible is literature, not dogma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible is literature, not dogma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, tomorrow is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11518]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24839]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day the faithful will have it all! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15003]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day the faithful will have it all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days seem to go on endlessly, I await the 'someday' I've always been promised. That 'someday' when things are supposed to be perfect... the 'someday' when I find my place in this unforgiving world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16059]]></link><description><![CDATA["Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail!  See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance:   They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hardly wear any makeup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hardly wear any makeup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47151]]></link><description><![CDATA[This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the moon.. didn't the Democrats whose candidates were elected in the last3 presidential elections do that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun,  Singing in soothing tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun,  Singing in soothing tones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53439]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54236</guid></item></channel></rss>