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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9483]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51958]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been caught, to skin him. [Lat., Et vulgariter dicitur, quod primun oportet cervum capere, et postea, cum captus fuerit, illum excoriare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62723]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32534]]></link><description><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6344]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator has a deep sense of responsibility as he undertakes to transmit it to modern readers. He desires his transcript to be faithful to the meaning of the original, so far as he can reach that meaning, and also to do some justice to its literary qualities. But he is well aware that his aim often exceeds his grasp. Translation may be a fascinating task, yet no discipline is more humbling. You may be translating oracles, but soon you learn the risk and folly of posing as an oracle yourself. If your readers are dissatisfied at any point, they may be sure that the translator is still more dissatisfied, if not there, then elsewhere -- all the more so, because, in the nature of the case, he has always to appear dogmatic in print.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were afraid that Holocaust survivors would not like the idea of the play, but I think that the Israeli ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were afraid that Holocaust survivors would not like the idea of the play, but I think that the Israeli audience is more mature today than it was 30 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50820]]></link><description><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,   But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30158]]></link><description><![CDATA[We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins on the vicious member,   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is a little too bright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kiss the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kiss the rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The times they are a-changing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The times they are a-changing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18641]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went up a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61469]]></link><description><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge- they were all messages of love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The selective memory isn't selective enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The selective memory isn't selective enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;   It only serves to prove the living vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/948]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47162]]></link><description><![CDATA[When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman doesn't need a perfect man. she just needs a special guy who can accept her the way she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman doesn't need a perfect man. she just needs a special guy who can accept her the way she is and make her feel special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57592]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19060]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060</guid></item></channel></rss>