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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26050]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  What think ye, is the Word of God to be fulfilled? Do you believe the Word of God? Do you believe what is fulfilled in the Word of God because it is fulfilled? or do you believe because God has said so? If you believe the past fulfillment because it is past, then you do not believe God. If you believe God, you must believe the future as well as the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we were off of our game. They outplayed us, but it just wasn't our night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we were off of our game. They outplayed us, but it just wasn't our night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All literature is political. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25359]]></link><description><![CDATA[All literature is political.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25025]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more of a secret plan. You'll know it when you see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more of a secret plan. You'll know it when you see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   To worship effectively is to enable men to become free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   To worship effectively is to enable men to become free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48204]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:    Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine     Yet keeps his book uncrossed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,--   Ah, how its wavelets drown one!    A blue eye is a true eye;     Mysterious is a dark one,      Which flashes like a spark-sun!       A black eye is the best one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32899]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very excited to have another chance to race. I love the Little 500. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very excited to have another chance to race. I love the Little 500.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint the meadows with delight,    The cuckoo then, on every tree,     Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;      Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,       Unpleasing to a married ear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust, but verify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust, but verify.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47312]]></link><description><![CDATA[While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/555]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54035]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,  With golden treasures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,  With golden treasures load his little thighs,   And steer his distant journey through the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12766]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500]]></link><description><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all;  Fire and sleete, and candle lighte   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57263]]></link><description><![CDATA[This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all;  Fire and sleete, and candle lighte   And Christe receive thye saule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law's made to take care o' raskills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law's made to take care o' raskills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to perseverance lies by doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to perseverance lies by doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329]]></link><description><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle is over when the foe has fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle is over when the foe has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50767</guid></item></channel></rss>