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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parleys is near yielding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parleys is near yielding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64415]]></link><description><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2777</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[We can look back at that and say the injury bug bit us a little, but that's why you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can look back at that and say the injury bug bit us a little, but that's why you have 15 guys on the team. When somebody goes down, other people have to step up and take the challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rally is hard and unfortunately this year there were some accidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rally is hard and unfortunately this year there were some accidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king already   Hath married the fair lady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're ready to play them when the puck drops, and we're expecting a battle for 60 minutes. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're ready to play them when the puck drops, and we're expecting a battle for 60 minutes. When we do play 60 minutes, we're a tough team to beat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It felt like people were squeezing on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearthfor her magnetizes to your home those who love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearthfor her magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345]]></link><description><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27013]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63282]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's basically the same, just darker.(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's basically the same, just darker.(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46759]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027</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/7377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26018]]></link><description><![CDATA["Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look a gift horse in the mouth. [Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look a gift horse in the mouth. [Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people can be a little fickle. They'll go for the newest, hottest thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people can be a little fickle. They'll go for the newest, hottest thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try out the animal before he bought him. He took theAss home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, uponwhich the new animal left all the others and at once joined theone that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to hisowner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could havemade a trial of him, he answered, I do not need a trial; I knowthat he will be just the same as the one he chose for hiscompanion. A man is known by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ... Thus, while the tangible has advantages, It is the intangible that makes it useful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/993</guid></item></channel></rss>