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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1682]]></link><description><![CDATA[We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't win the section this year, and, after that, we set this as our goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't win the section this year, and, after that, we set this as our goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of that religious way   Is better than to rest: We cannot reach our Savior's purity; Yet we are bid, 'Be holy ev'n as He':   In both let's do our best. Who goeth in the way which Christ hath gone Is much more sure to meet with Him than one   That traveleth by-ways; Perhaps my God, though He be far before,  May turn, and take me by the hand, and more,   May strengthen my decays. Yet, Lord, instruct us to improve our fast By starving sin, and taking such repast   As may our faults control; That ev'ry man may revel at his door, Not in his parlor -- banquetting the poor,   And among those, his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still, this group won the most games in a season in 23 years. We came into this game winning 17 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still, this group won the most games in a season in 23 years. We came into this game winning 17 out of our last 19 games. We gave our community a lot to be proud of. We didn't make them proud with this performance, but one game isn't going to take anything away from their accomplishments this year. That (St. V-M) was a very good team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the still-vexed Bermoothes. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56099]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the still-vexed Bermoothes. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key issue that the court will focus on in the case is whether political gerrymandering is constitutional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key issue that the court will focus on in the case is whether political gerrymandering is constitutional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5570]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882   No one is safe by his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10704]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. Everyone get very modest and humble and listens. If you need do rough things, you do rough things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272]]></link><description><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer  In health--when ill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26684]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer  In health--when ill, we call them to attend us,   Without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losing was a shock, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losing was a shock,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,   Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city,   As lovely as seems    To some bard in his dreams,     The soul of his latest love-ditty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every ill man hath his ill day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every ill man hath his ill day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not condone the sale of Kentucky Derby tickets for higher than face value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not condone the sale of Kentucky Derby tickets for higher than face value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a long black coat   All button'd down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59772]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is educated insolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is educated insolence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing with Anthony is that he loves to play basketball. Any time the gym's open, he's here. All summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing with Anthony is that he loves to play basketball. Any time the gym's open, he's here. All summer long, he was a gym rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28451</guid></item></channel></rss>