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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. [Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,  Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31155]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. New every year, New-born and newly dear, He comes with tidings and a song, The ages long, the ages long. Even as the cold  Keen winter grows not old, As childhood is so fresh, forseen, And spring in the familiar green. Sudden as sweet Come the expected feet. All joy is young, and new all art, And He, too, whom we have by heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recompiling doesn't matter...it's Solaris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recompiling doesn't matter...it's Solaris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to bear of being born of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7320</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[I feel like I could fly, I am so happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I could fly, I am so happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64238]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge me... \'cause you ain't me... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge me... \'cause you ain't me...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love rules his kingdome without a sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love rules his kingdome without a sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53610]]></link><description><![CDATA[None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all   Where pity is, for pity makes the world    Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody took something that belonged to us, that we had taken care of. That's the frustrating part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody took something that belonged to us, that we had taken care of. That's the frustrating part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27481]]></link><description><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.   There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.    Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,     He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stir not dying embers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stir not dying embers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home,  And call the cattle home,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54323]]></link><description><![CDATA["O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home,  And call the cattle home,   Across the sands o' Dee;"    The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam     And all alone went she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My real fear is that there will be revenge acts. That has happened in the past. That could be very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33552]]></link><description><![CDATA[My real fear is that there will be revenge acts. That has happened in the past. That could be very bloody and lead to more serious problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buying and giving a positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buying and giving a positive reaction to good corporate earnings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Megan] really carried us when we got down early and hit some tough shots. We thought they may struggle against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35393]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Megan] really carried us when we got down early and hit some tough shots. We thought they may struggle against our zone and our press gave us a spark and forced some turnovers. After a rough start to the year, we have become a pretty good defensive team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4200</guid></item></channel></rss>