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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would especially like to thank our Mom and Dad and our family for supporting us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would especially like to thank our Mom and Dad and our family for supporting us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   Neglects or violates his trust is more    A brigand than the robber-chief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10210]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14461]]></link><description><![CDATA[To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when its through, if you are a crook or a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853]]></link><description><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045]]></link><description><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  A gauntlet with a gift in 't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59307]]></link><description><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because it is sealed up and no one turns back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat. He just started shooting her, then he shot at the pulpit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because they come off the bench doesn't mean they're not really good. We're a team and everyone gets an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because they come off the bench doesn't mean they're not really good. We're a team and everyone gets an opportunity. We use different kinds of combinations for different reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35129]]></link><description><![CDATA[An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4401]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the mere existence of unusual criminals that [has] ravaged our world; for the arrangements of society (whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the mere existence of unusual criminals that [has] ravaged our world; for the arrangements of society (whether national or international) ought always to presume that some of these will be lurking somewhere. The gates have been opened to evil in part because of a terrible discrepancy between human ideals and actual possibilities -- terrible heresies concerning the nature of man and the structure of the historical universe. Christianity, even if it cannot persuade men to rise to the contemplation of the spiritual things, embodies principles which may at least have the effect of bringing the dreamers down to earth. Because it confronts the problem of human sin, it can face our difficulties and dilemmas without evasions -- without the fundamental evasiveness of those who believe that all would be well with the world if it were not for a few unspeakable criminals, always conveniently identified with the political enemy of the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16559]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53109]]></link><description><![CDATA[For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of His can and body; must I find   A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13843]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet;  Thou canst not tread, but thou wilt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet;  Thou canst not tread, but thou wilt find   The daisy at thy feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you see American Idol last night? ... You've got to see this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you see American Idol last night? ... You've got to see this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has many years of experience in this field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28967]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has many years of experience in this field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1885]]></link><description><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56166]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, HR departments have had trouble with employees abusing sabbaticals or asking to cash out of the benefit and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, HR departments have had trouble with employees abusing sabbaticals or asking to cash out of the benefit and just keep working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was the whole transition thing, me being the new guy. You know, you win and your everybody's friend. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was the whole transition thing, me being the new guy. You know, you win and your everybody's friend. You lose, and it's all your fault. I'm glad I'm on the good end of things. I could've been the sacrificial lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183</guid></item></channel></rss>