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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5002]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,   From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,    To caper on sunny greens and slopes,     Instead of the dance upon nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, That all of thee we loved and cherished Has with thy summer roses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4153]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, That all of thee we loved and cherished Has with thy summer roses perished; And left, as its young beauty fled, An ashen memory in its stead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a summer market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30649]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a summer market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in our nursing schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58417]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected. [Lat., Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundae magis sunt, nescio quomodo,  Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis;   Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put down pressure on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28412]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put down pressure on the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56736]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50909]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6566]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man reliable. And, when someone never lets you down, you look instinctively for a deeper relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent works, genius creates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent works, genius creates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25169]]></link><description><![CDATA[In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49010</guid></item></channel></rss>