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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it    Then, if you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who alas! can love and then be wise? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48727]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who alas! can love and then be wise?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  A Christian cannot help being free, because in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36072]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we are and where we stand for the future. ... We need to put an established product and winner on the men's basketball court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51955]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You mean the producer is the guy who was telling me, 'Move along, sir, three feet from the rail?' ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32911]]></link><description><![CDATA[You mean the producer is the guy who was telling me, 'Move along, sir, three feet from the rail?' ... I want someone with musical experience to tell me that I (stink).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as your solitude subsides .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dubai has been trying to prove to the rest of the Arab world that there is life after oil, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dubai has been trying to prove to the rest of the Arab world that there is life after oil, and that in fact it's a better life. The good news is there is room for a second and a third Dubai, just like there was room for a second Singapore in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66596]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man's joke is always funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20097]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man's joke is always funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the mind and body act on one another, and according to which one mind acts on another; but it is certain that a great part of this mutual action can be reduced to general laws, and that the more we know of such laws, the greater our power to benefit others will be. When, through the operation of such laws, surprising events take place, [we may] cry out, ... "Such is the will of God," instead of setting ourselves to inquire whether it is the will of God to give us power to bring about or prevent such results; then our conduct is not piety but sinful laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24391]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.   Have I not tarried?    Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.     Still have I tarried.      Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the      kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and      the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance      to burn your lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All that has been resolved is the venue. What both sides have done is buy time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58572]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58572</guid></item></channel></rss>