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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43424]]></link><description><![CDATA[[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain,  If, rising on its wrecks, at last   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain,  If, rising on its wrecks, at last   To something nobler we attain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48267]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because the world is populous,   And here is not a creature but myself,    I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with love and shame.    But the olives they were not blind to Him,     The little gray leaves were kind to Him:      The thorn-tree had a mind to Him,       When into the woods He came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such and so various are the tastes of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such and so various are the tastes of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you gave her the power to stay seated. She heard your voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20552]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57167]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welfare of the people is the ultimate law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welfare of the people is the ultimate law]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17071]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66222]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22072]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks with clamorous call;    And, to the toils of nature true,     Wreath their capacious nests anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26301]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: "Now bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: "Now bring on that damn cat!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what a rent the envious Casca made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10794]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what a rent the envious Casca made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours that traveiled before us in this kinds, either in this land or beyond sea, ... that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, ... and that they deserve to be had of us and of posteritie in everlasting remembrance... Therefore blessed be they, and most honoured be their name, that breake the yce and give the onset upon that which helpeth forward to the saving of soules. Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver Gods booke unto the Gods people in a tongue which they understand? ... So if we, building upon their foundation that went before us, and being holpen by their labours, doe endeavor to make that better which they left so good; no man, we are sure, has cause to mislike us; they, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive, would thank us. For is the Kingdom of God become words or syllables? Why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free? [Some antique spelling fixed -- Ed.].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb  A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous  Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni  Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous  I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry  Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown  If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous  To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter   The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy  Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard  Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz  One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous  You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin  With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb  Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers  You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke  Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson  The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery  Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck  Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry  You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton  Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes  Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers  You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber  Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann  Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor  Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From compromise and things half done,     Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9297]]></link><description><![CDATA[From compromise and things half done,     Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won,     God, keep me still unsatisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34302</guid></item></channel></rss>