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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often described as fear, which is something quite different and far deeper than alarm. It was that sense which, without irreverence, I have thought to find expressed by the great evangelists when they speak of the fear of God. One does not fear God because He is terrible, but because He is literally the soul of goodness and truth, because to do Him wrong is to do wrong to some mysterious part of oneself, and one does not know exactly what the consequences may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48097]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bellfrom Cyrano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bellfrom Cyrano.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58264]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!   O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or harshly judging our neighbors... If you are faithful in keeping silence when it is not necessary to speak, God will preserve you from evil when it is right for you to talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of a generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of a generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19377]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622]]></link><description><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,   And blanch, without the owner's crime,    The most resplendent hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never assume the obvious is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never assume the obvious is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64758]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody can be great.Because anybody can serve..You only need a heart full of grace.A soul generated by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody can be great.Because anybody can serve..You only need a heart full of grace.A soul generated by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41502]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27490]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I rose up at the dawn of day,-- "Get thee away! get thee away!  Pray'st thou for riches? Away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I rose up at the dawn of day,-- "Get thee away! get thee away!  Pray'st thou for riches? Away, away!   This is the throne of Mammon grey."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30029]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15159]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were hearing what some of their CD's, what they were saying on some of their CD's and frankly it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were hearing what some of their CD's, what they were saying on some of their CD's and frankly it got the ire up a little bit of some of the local police agencies. And that really helped to motivate everyone in terms of getting going on this investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42510]]></link><description><![CDATA[She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart. Then they'll start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart. Then they'll start to expect things from you, and it all goes downhill from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are sisters. We will always be sisters.Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56479]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are sisters. We will always be sisters.Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think anyone that played left some strokes out on the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think anyone that played left some strokes out on the course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are really benefiting from this intervention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28673]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are really benefiting from this intervention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2643]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,    And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,     Trembled but dimpled not for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy metal music is illogical. It makes just as much sense to reason like this: some nuns like soccer; violence sometimes occurs at soccer matches; therefore, nuns tend to be violent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17933</guid></item></channel></rss>