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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a health to the lass with the merry black eyes! Here's a health to the lad with the blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a health to the lass with the merry black eyes! Here's a health to the lad with the blue ones!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much might be said on both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much might be said on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started making pita when I was 14; now I'm 58. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started making pita when I was 14; now I'm 58.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor have them translated into the vulgar tongues. I would wish that all women -- girls even -- would read the Gospels and the letters of Paul. I wish that they were translated into all languages of all people. To make them understood is surely the first step. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the calls that their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the calls that their child is not there, and it brings attention to parents of older students that their child was absent without them knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15540]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble,  Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,   Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--   It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52960]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42720]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would have made had the ships been operated. And to pay for the expense of canceling 100,000 people and protecting travel agent commissions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life sofull of meaningful things that you'll hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life sofull of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think aboutfood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always been praying for India-Pakistan friendship and I think now those prayers are being answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always been praying for India-Pakistan friendship and I think now those prayers are being answered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize   At last the fleeting Now?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll talk with trainers, doctors, coaches, but I'm looking to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll talk with trainers, doctors, coaches, but I'm looking to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63478]]></link><description><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you???? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you????]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200   It was my generation, and the generation that preceded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200   It was my generation, and the generation that preceded me, that forgot. The younger generation is not primarily to be blamed. Those who are struggling today, those who are far away and doing that which is completely contrary to the Christian conscience, are not first to be blamed. It is my generation, and the generation that preceded me, who turned away. Today we are left, not only with a religion and a church without meaning, but... with a culture without meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that speaks much, is much mistaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64847]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that speaks much, is much mistaken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58003</guid></item></channel></rss>