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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36595]]></link><description><![CDATA[No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   But first I said, ... "Some people think it is not proper for a clergyman to dance. I mean to assert my freedom from any such law. If our Lord chose to represent, in His parable of the Prodigal Son, the joy in Heaven over a repentant sinner by the figure of "music and dancing', I will hearken to Him rather than to man, be they as good as they may." For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of substantial psychiatric problems are actually starting and are identifiable much earlier than we ever thought, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of substantial psychiatric problems are actually starting and are identifiable much earlier than we ever thought,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His SonsA father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His SonsA father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done so, he placed the faggot into the hands of each of them in succession, and ordered them to break it in pieces. They tried with all their strength, and were not able to do it. He next opened the faggot, took the sticks separately, one by one, and again put them into his sons' hands, upon which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these words: My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27296]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. [Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann nicht, so will er nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours. [Lat., Demens  Judicio vulgi, sanus fortasse tuo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours. [Lat., Demens  Judicio vulgi, sanus fortasse tuo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The command of custome is great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The command of custome is great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50649]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55929]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25971]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8150]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did make it,   That I believe and take it.   - Elizabeth I,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62107]]></link><description><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are already Chinese software companies, operating in China; they are fast learners ... If there will be a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are already Chinese software companies, operating in China; they are fast learners ... If there will be a large software company emerging in Asia, it is likely to emerge in China first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33680]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A third Cato has dropped from the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A third Cato has dropped from the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole!  Look up Godward! speak the truth in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46844]]></link><description><![CDATA[O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole!  Look up Godward! speak the truth in   Worthy song from earnest soul!    Hold, in high poetic duty,     Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8901]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59947]]></link><description><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed especially for a position as important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed especially for a position as important as this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all the awards she was given, she never put one on the wall. They're all under the bed. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31090]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all the awards she was given, she never put one on the wall. They're all under the bed. She said that she didn't need that; she knew what she'd done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to prepare dough ahead for pizza crusts too. Whenever I bake loaves of whole wheat, anadama, herb, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to prepare dough ahead for pizza crusts too. Whenever I bake loaves of whole wheat, anadama, herb, or other breads . . . I just mix up a little extra, package the dough in onepound lots, and freeze it right alongside my other ingredients. ThenÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹when pizza day rolls aroundÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹all I have to do is go to the freezer and select one container of crust, one sauce, one sausage, and one cheese . . . thaw everything . . . roll out the dough and spread on the sauce, sausage, and cheese . . . bake my creation at 450?F for about 15 minutes or until the cheese is slightly browned . . . and 'serve 'er up' to a hungry family of four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31144</guid></item></channel></rss>