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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets their confidence up for the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets their confidence up for the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, ... tired of common sense and civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51967]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27290]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19102]]></link><description><![CDATA[You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no people. It's like trying to interview someone's guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power ought to serve as a check to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power ought to serve as a check to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61287]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch Me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch Me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60216]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11277]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37733]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - The Heart's Domain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60648]]></link><description><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1272]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance sweet   To find some secret spell,--    A charm that has bound me with witching power,     For mine is the old belief,      That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,       There's a soul in every leaf!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't put equipment on your gravestone.*Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/670]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't put equipment on your gravestone.*Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is difficult to those who have the will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28727]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and if you don't come out and guard them, they are going to shoot 3s. We really struggled defensively, and honestly, that's the first time we've struggled defensively this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50378]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23082]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows whether they felt bad or they just wanted to get rid of it, because somebody, somewhere would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows whether they felt bad or they just wanted to get rid of it, because somebody, somewhere would have information as to who took it and where it's been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of spirit as to God, His nature, and works. (2) The glorifying of God is the great work of God's children. (3) Delightful privacy with God argues strong affection. (4) Frequent prayer an argument of much of God's Spirit; true prayer is the pouring out of the heart to God; God's children are most in private with God; the prayers of God's people most respect spiritual mercies; God's people wait for and rest in God's answer. (5) God's people are sensible of their unworthiness. (6) God Himself is regarded as the portion of His people. (7) Ready obedience to God. (8) The patience of God's children under God's hand. (9) The mournful confession of God's people. (10) God's people long after God in an open profession of His ordinances. (11) Their hearts are ready and prepared. (12) God's people's sense of their own insufficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me to think that almost any company of clergymen gathering together and talking freely to one another will express opinions which would greatly surprise and at the same time relieve the congregations who ordinarily listen to these ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, andvirtue is doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, andvirtue is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59730]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a learning game for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a learning game for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45032]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us,   And foolish notion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17683]]></link><description><![CDATA[He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17683</guid></item></channel></rss>