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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the essential mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the essential mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;  Where the rug's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19625]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;  Where the rug's two-fold use we might display,   By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk as best we can, ... We thought we'd put it on the table, to free up Mr. Polletta to put the path around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51154]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15976]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is going to be the primary issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but stand out there and think how amazing it is with all the connections, including Glen Sather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but stand out there and think how amazing it is with all the connections, including Glen Sather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58502</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[To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/555]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. So he automatically writes off any Biblical account of a wondrous happening which suggests that there is an order of reality transcending the observable regularities of nature and occasionally breaking in upon them. Nor is rational skepticism content with jettisoning the Bible's miracle stories. It also dismisses other passages on the grounds that they reflect the ignorance and prejudice of a particular age, or the propaganda interests of the Church at a particular stage of its development. Its basic rule of Biblical interpretation is: "When in doubt, throw it out." And the highest scores in the game of radical reductionism are awarded to pedagogues who find the most novel and far-fetched reasons for doubting that any part of the Bible really means what it says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the addition of the 12th regular-season game would make any playoff even more difficult. I find little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the addition of the 12th regular-season game would make any playoff even more difficult. I find little support for a playoff among presidents of major universities, and I believe some voted for the 12th game in lieu of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get. -Robbert Oustin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44847]]></link><description><![CDATA[To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't seem like very long ago that we were the new kids on the block, and really tried to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't seem like very long ago that we were the new kids on the block, and really tried to claw our way up from the rear of the pack, so it's a very exciting feeling for us to come in and be as confident as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15883]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14956]]></link><description><![CDATA[You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails,   And bends the gallant mast!    And bends the gallant mast, my boys,     While, like the eagle free,      Away the good ship flies, and leaves       Old England in the lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25997]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23260]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some joy of silence or of sound,   Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689</guid></item></channel></rss>