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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287]]></link><description><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5304]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45981]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,   Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;    For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,     Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;      Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,       Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26391]]></link><description><![CDATA[More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't know life, how can we know death? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't know life, how can we know death?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me  High mountains are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me  High mountains are a feeling, but the hum   Of human cities torture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is horrible. Because you have to get here two hours early just to find a place to park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42368]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is horrible. Because you have to get here two hours early just to find a place to park.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's moved around, he's in a lot of different positions. They're really working it to him, getting him in some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30523]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's moved around, he's in a lot of different positions. They're really working it to him, getting him in some mismatch situations, throwing some crossing routes underneath, trying to isolate him on linebackers and situations like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest,  Lend less than thou owest,   Ride more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest,  Lend less than thou owest,   Ride more than thou goest,    Learn more than thou trowest,     Set less than thou throwest;      Leave thy drink and thy whore,       And keep in-a-door,        And thou shalt have more         Than two tens to a score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31748]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are inferior to men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5863]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are inferior to men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56071]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's getting better every week. He's kind of quiet, but that can be good sometimes. He just goes out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33173]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's getting better every week. He's kind of quiet, but that can be good sometimes. He just goes out there and does his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2803]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si coelum ruat?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48362]]></link><description><![CDATA[With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none?   If he had not liv'd for thee,    Thou hadst died most wretchedly     And two deaths had been thy fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63855</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/26750]]></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/26750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42819</guid></item></channel></rss>