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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66415]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50246]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been hard just getting back in the groove. I think we got in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been hard just getting back in the groove. I think we got in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57443]]></link><description><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31406]]></link><description><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46612]]></link><description><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace at home, peace in the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace at home, peace in the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supply of ice and water is exceeding the demand right now. The ice and water will not be wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supply of ice and water is exceeding the demand right now. The ice and water will not be wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17977]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower,  Waiving what none can understand,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower,  Waiving what none can understand,   I make mine hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  How shall I charm the interval that lowers   Between this time and that sweet time of grace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is never finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is never finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of war and peace,--   Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!    Eternal summer gilds them yet,     But all, except their sun, is set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in times of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in times of complete exasperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16740]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52345]]></link><description><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14966]]></link><description><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their actions were morally ugly. After spending so much time among us, they stabbed us in the back, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their actions were morally ugly. After spending so much time among us, they stabbed us in the back,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted to do more maps for other areas along the Gulf Coast, but no one wanted to pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40557]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted to do more maps for other areas along the Gulf Coast, but no one wanted to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,   By that same token,    An' come to stop those reckless vows,     Would soon be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an unbalanced emotion poised between fear and love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42430]]></link><description><![CDATA[an unbalanced emotion poised between fear and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42430</guid></item></channel></rss>