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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot take care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39492]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Works and Days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This really is a team in every sense of the word. We've been getting a lot of contributions from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35273]]></link><description><![CDATA[This really is a team in every sense of the word. We've been getting a lot of contributions from a lot of kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43306]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44008]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things cannot long be hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Confucious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things cannot long be hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Confucious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want to work to correspond to an image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to work to correspond to an image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;  Then Heaven tries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23566]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;  Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,   And over it softly her warm ear lays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood   Then surely I was born.    With monstrous head and sickening cry     And ears like errant wings,      The devil's walking parody       On all four-footed things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46034]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why we're doing what we're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35293]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why we're doing what we're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand,  When first the thoughtful and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand,  When first the thoughtful and the free,   Our fathers, trod the desert land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry Bonds, in the presence of legends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ultimate goal is to make this the destination of choice for elite athletes that are able to get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39696]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ultimate goal is to make this the destination of choice for elite athletes that are able to get into Ivy League schools. That's a pretty lofty goal and it's going to take a lot of time and work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734]]></link><description><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young children and chickens would ever be eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young children and chickens would ever be eating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55343]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know everyone here along Sullivan Creek is concerned about mosquitoes. I'm kind of concerned about my grandkids and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know everyone here along Sullivan Creek is concerned about mosquitoes. I'm kind of concerned about my grandkids and my health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44293]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;   That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.     The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,      Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;       And as imagination bodies forth        The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen         Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing          A local habitation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,  The symphony of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10816]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,  The symphony of spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53331]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36988]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36988</guid></item></channel></rss>