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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an insult to be just a great cover guy. I really think Deion Sanders set defensive-back play back. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an insult to be just a great cover guy. I really think Deion Sanders set defensive-back play back. All he would do is cover people and not strike anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right / shame on you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right / shame on you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words writ in waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words writ in waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to color everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mold, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had done the deed; and I could, by a total will, do as great a sin as if I had killed the whole world, though I never actually did anything. Why, would the same not be possible to a good will? Yes, indeed, and even much more so. Surely, I can do all things with the will. I can bear the sorrow of all men and feed all the poor and do the work of all men and whatever else you may think of. If it be not the will that fails you, but only the power, then truly, before God, you have done it all, and no man can take it from you or even hinder you for a moment; for to will to do as soon as I can is the same before God as having done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a Communist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6402]]></link><description><![CDATA[To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is a clear sign that a person has also given up the very battle that a Christian is summoned to fight. The Psalms are prayers for those who are engaged in an ongoing, spiritual conflict. No one else need bother even opening the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when she was young. We would go to the batting cage and I would put it on 110 pitches. I told her as long as you at least foul the ball off there is no way you are going to strike out and that all you have to do is just nick the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14300]]></link><description><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16111]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59600]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After that first goal, they came pretty quick. We just had some trouble getting going, but once we did, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30554]]></link><description><![CDATA[After that first goal, they came pretty quick. We just had some trouble getting going, but once we did, we played well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into the game and had a big surge in the fourth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never let a rhinestone go unturned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never let a rhinestone go unturned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the people of Texas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32417]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the people of Texas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her maid art far more fair than she.   Be not her maid, since she is envious.    Her vestal livery is but sick and green,     And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suing a government entity is always a little more difficult than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suing a government entity is always a little more difficult than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really psyched for O.A.R. They'll certainly be a hell of a lot better than Sonic Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really psyched for O.A.R. They'll certainly be a hell of a lot better than Sonic Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53083]]></link><description><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18520</guid></item></channel></rss>