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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23165]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58119]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody can be great.Because anybody can serve..You only need a heart full of grace.A soul generated by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody can be great.Because anybody can serve..You only need a heart full of grace.A soul generated by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got through that and, of course, now I think we are in a position of strength and to move ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33226]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got through that and, of course, now I think we are in a position of strength and to move forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33072]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My star, God's glowworm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17574]]></link><description><![CDATA[My star, God's glowworm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls in the river,   A moment white--then melts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53823]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lehigh Valley economy in 2005 is a lot healthier than it has been in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lehigh Valley economy in 2005 is a lot healthier than it has been in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good land, evill way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good land, evill way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house,  Boding to all!--He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house,  Boding to all!--He had my handkerchief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They seem to be opening a crack for Microsoft on the desktop, a crack that Microsoft could well take advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They seem to be opening a crack for Microsoft on the desktop, a crack that Microsoft could well take advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another day against the intrigues of politicians, on another against the dead hand of bureaucrats, on another against the patrioter and the militarist, on another against the profiteer, and then against the hysteria and the passions of the mobs, against obscurantism and stupidity, against the criminal and against the overrighteous. In this campaign every civilized man is enlisted till he dies, and he only has known the full joy of living who somewhere and at some time has struck a decisive blow for the freedom of the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives. Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember my strong advice, just remember to always think twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember my strong advice, just remember to always think twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to play with more confidence and more urgency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've waited long enough. I just hope we have better luck this time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've waited long enough. I just hope we have better luck this time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20635</guid></item></channel></rss>