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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15390]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13075]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generous person forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives. Learn, earn, return. These are the three phases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generous person forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives. Learn, earn, return. These are the three phases of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue, And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue, And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a poet out of a man.   The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--    For the reed that grows never more again     As a reed with the reeds of the river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're providing all the supplies and dinner. Parents just bring in pictures they want to put in the scrapbook, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're providing all the supplies and dinner. Parents just bring in pictures they want to put in the scrapbook, and the essay the kids wrote will be the centerpiece. It will pull a little at the heartstrings because the essay and pictures are so meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might only go on the field five or six times a game, ... But you're dealing with a lot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might only go on the field five or six times a game, ... But you're dealing with a lot, your heart is racing. The more times you go out in front of a crowd, the more relaxed you're going to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration is the wet nurse of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55666]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been able to accomplish that. They need that off their plate. It is in Haywood County so let Haywood County take it and make something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32273]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426]]></link><description><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making bright the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25289]]></link><description><![CDATA[They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26146]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   It was not a marriage only, but a marriage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   It was not a marriage only, but a marriage feast to which Christ conducted His disciples. Now, we cannot get over this plain fact by saying that it was a religious ceremony: that would be mere sophistry. It was an indulgence in the festivity of life; as plainly as words can describe, here was a banquet of human enjoyment. The very language of the master of the feast about men who had well drunk, tells us that there had been, not excess, of course, but happiness there, and merry-making. Neither can we explain away the lesson by saying that it is no example to us, for Christ was there to do good, and that what was safe for Him might be unsafe for us. For if His life is no pattern for us here in this case of accepting an invitation, in what can we be sure it is a pattern? Besides, He took His disciples there, and His mother was there: they were not shielded, as He was, by immaculate purity. He was there as a guest first, as Messiah only afterwards: thereby He declared the sacredness of natural enjoyments.... For Christianity does not destroy what is natural, but ennobles it. To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35362]]></link><description><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair to anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought Death to come. Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him. The Old Man hurriedly replied, That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is a private station.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard about the walk event last year when my sister called to tell me that she could no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard about the walk event last year when my sister called to tell me that she could no longer participate. My sister works very hard dealing with the effects of her MS. She is selfless and committed to finding a cure. Each year, instead of accepting a gift for her birthday and Christmas, she asks that we donate to the National MS Society. She is the strongest person I know, and that's why I had to get involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55894]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old,  That no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old,  That no success attends on spears and swords   Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to be excited or encouraged by the appeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41281]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to be excited or encouraged by the appeal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt  The witching of the soft blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt  The witching of the soft blue sky!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15478]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27743]]></link><description><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't notice the top models in the show. You won't be able to recognize them. ... It's about having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35798]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't notice the top models in the show. You won't be able to recognize them. ... It's about having this one concept, this one woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35798</guid></item></channel></rss>