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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65265]]></link><description><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24370]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,--   Hurrah for the next that dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station;  "United we stand--divided we fall!"  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16145]]></link><description><![CDATA["A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station;  "United we stand--divided we fall!"   It made and preserves us a nation!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, Viewing the towering falcon nigh?  She cuddles low behind the brake:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, Viewing the towering falcon nigh?  She cuddles low behind the brake:   Nor would she stay; nor dares she fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know the public is wildly enthusiastic about both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know the public is wildly enthusiastic about both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get that many athletes in one place was unreal. It was nice to be a part of it. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33379]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get that many athletes in one place was unreal. It was nice to be a part of it. We plan to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small businesses are searching for a flexible, functional solution that will quickly and painlessly help them manage daily accounting tasks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small businesses are searching for a flexible, functional solution that will quickly and painlessly help them manage daily accounting tasks and also support a company's growth and evolution, from startup to mid-market. With its ease-of-use, depth of features and integrated components, Small Business PRO fully meets these expectations so companies can capitalize on the power of automation to increase efficiency and remain focused on advancing their business to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38325]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5295]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1032]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may have just enough shadow   To temper the glare of the sun;    I would pray God to guard them from evil,     But my prayer would bound back to myself:      Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner,       But a sinner must pray for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put that (amendment) in there and send it back to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put that (amendment) in there and send it back to them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51601]]></link><description><![CDATA[He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be faithful than famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15049]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be faithful than famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19599]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15342]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing makes me so much grieve, As that abominable tittle-tattle,  Which is the cud eschew'd by human cattle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing makes me so much grieve, As that abominable tittle-tattle,  Which is the cud eschew'd by human cattle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one wants lots of different lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37226]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one wants lots of different lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead, he killed people by lying and concealing the plot ... that resulted in the worst terrorist attack in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead, he killed people by lying and concealing the plot ... that resulted in the worst terrorist attack in the country's history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The South Wind has for the evening donned jasmine scent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The South Wind has for the evening donned jasmine scent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm watching film and I'm running with my chest up, my head back. ... That's not how you run and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40541]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm watching film and I'm running with my chest up, my head back. ... That's not how you run and catch somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34988]]></link><description><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to those who suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so, his senses gradually wrapt In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds,  And dreaming hears thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12870]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so, his senses gradually wrapt In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds,  And dreaming hears thee still, O singing lark;   That singest like an angel in the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you’re thirty you’re old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you’re thirty you’re old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's dirty, he's dirty, he's dirty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's dirty, he's dirty, he's dirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2283]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/765]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16126]]></link><description><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us of your shame.    Your banner's constellation types     White freedom with its stars,      But what's the meaning of the stripes?       They mean your negroes' scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24319</guid></item></channel></rss>