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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's quite an athlete, isn't he? He can pitch game one, he can run balls down in the outfield, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34547]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's quite an athlete, isn't he? He can pitch game one, he can run balls down in the outfield, he can drive in runs. We're happy to have him, put it that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burgerShe was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burgerShe was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger and she won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20310]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17401]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that most people have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28137]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear [in the world today], because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11739]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the story, ... It's really coincidental that everything has gone bad at one time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23490</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/8592]]></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  If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts. Our hearts are closed, for they have already been given to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of characterÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ must be earned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of characterÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ must be earned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   What are our lame praises in comparison with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49509]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Currently there are no agreed-upon definitions. It won't end up apples to apples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Currently there are no agreed-upon definitions. It won't end up apples to apples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the industry is indeed vulnerable because what they are doing is not right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the industry is indeed vulnerable because what they are doing is not right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10873]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Look to the lilies how they grow!" 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we,  Even in the simplest flowers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25088]]></link><description><![CDATA["Look to the lilies how they grow!" 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we,  Even in the simplest flowers that blow,   God's ever-watchful care might see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride in playing good defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57751]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much putting yourself inside a prison .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â . and that's not for business people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29721]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much putting yourself inside a prison .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â . and that's not for business people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358</guid></item></channel></rss>