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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5460]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heating oil customers have the worst of the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heating oil customers have the worst of the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, we're not going to let this go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, we're not going to let this go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power,   Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up    To want the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need drama in my life to keep making music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need drama in my life to keep making music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49416]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me;  My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61754]]></link><description><![CDATA[But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me;  My tendency is to philosophise   On most things, from a tyrant to a tree;    But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies,     What are we? and whence come we? what shall be      Our ultimate existence? What's our present?       Are questions answerless, and yet incessant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn\'t, then why would you say I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn\'t, then why would you say I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out of their own sins by means of fasting and lamentations, and prayers, and sackcloth and ashes -- this it is possible for us easily to effect without sackcloth and ashes and fasting, if only we blot out anger from our heart, and with sincerity forgive those who have wronged us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty fun. I'd try it again definitely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty fun. I'd try it again definitely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880]]></link><description><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16959]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18538]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62543]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will either find a way, or make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will either find a way, or make one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go to see the sun for the last time. [Fr., Je m'em vais voir le soleil pour la derniere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go to see the sun for the last time. [Fr., Je m'em vais voir le soleil pour la derniere fois.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just saw a big sign with the F-word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just saw a big sign with the F-word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've ... always thought he could be a big comedy star. The nice thing about 'Virgin' is that it shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've ... always thought he could be a big comedy star. The nice thing about 'Virgin' is that it shows the studios that if the premise is a strong one, you can take a chance on a new actor in the lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55705</guid></item></channel></rss>