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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is fate. (Destiny) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is fate. (Destiny)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a part of both organizations, there is no comparison in the two organizations. This is a professional organization. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a part of both organizations, there is no comparison in the two organizations. This is a professional organization. The Hornets were just -- I don't know what the hell it was. There is no explaining for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26045]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that diversity is important. Period, ... Diversity overall, whether (involving) various ethnicities, out-of-state students, international students, religions, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that diversity is important. Period, ... Diversity overall, whether (involving) various ethnicities, out-of-state students, international students, religions, we know all of those students bring something unique to IU.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21195]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brace yourself. We're looking at pretty serious situations in the market place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brace yourself. We're looking at pretty serious situations in the market place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baby bye Here's a fly,  Let us watch him, you and I,   How he crawls   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baby bye Here's a fly,  Let us watch him, you and I,   How he crawls    Up the walls     Yet he never falls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might,  With magic might, my own sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might,  With magic might, my own sweet love,   Into my little room above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has grown to appreciate including our board just how important the external and internal reputation of Wal-Mart is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has grown to appreciate including our board just how important the external and internal reputation of Wal-Mart is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born within the sound of Bow-bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25456]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41608]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed:  So all for love we paired in Spring-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed:  So all for love we paired in Spring--   Blanche and I--ere youth had sped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio by the end of 2005 save Nigeria. Basically the world, at the start of 2006, will look at who is late, and work to make that process move faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You talk about some destiny out here. We got guys out there with a lot of heart and they went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32974]]></link><description><![CDATA[You talk about some destiny out here. We got guys out there with a lot of heart and they went all the way down to the wire to show it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18059]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,  And, like living coals, the apples  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3562]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,  And, like living coals, the apples   Burned among the withering leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the first time we've seen this many houses in the million-dollar range on the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31231]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the first time we've seen this many houses in the million-dollar range on the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year.  . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year.  . . . .   The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, the market is really behaving quite well today [Thursday]. But there's still tremendous anxiety; the market is held hostage to individual corporate news and accountability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, but I think he's come close to maxing out the benefit for golf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his meals I ween,   In his cell so lone and cold.    . . . .     Creeping where no life is seen,      A rare old plant is the ivy green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13975</guid></item></channel></rss>