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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right. [Fr., Quand tout le monte a tort, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14162]]></link><description><![CDATA[When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right. [Fr., Quand tout le monte a tort, tout le monde a raison.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9216]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music is great and it's a great political satire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music is great and it's a great political satire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds think alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds think alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the same way I could put fine dished on my table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a crown Covers bald foreheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking up collections for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him laugh who wins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him laugh who wins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22991]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46669]]></link><description><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41262]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18623]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10976]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill,    And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of embarrassing your opponent or messing up a press conference or even rattling your opponent always comes up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of embarrassing your opponent or messing up a press conference or even rattling your opponent always comes up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don\'t have to give birth to someone to have a family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66740]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don\'t have to give birth to someone to have a family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52547]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15979]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   A united confession of the Name, a united worship of the Father, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   A united confession of the Name, a united worship of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit -- such a Confession, such a Worship, as the past contains only a dim shadow of -- we have a right to look for. It may come when we least expect it; it will probably come after a period of darkness, fierce contention, utter disbelief. But the confession will only be united when we cease to confound our feeble expressions of trust and affiance, our praises and adorations, with Him to whom they rise, from whom they proceed; when we are brought to nothingness, that He may be shown to be all in all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy!  And what have kings that privates have not too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5445]]></link><description><![CDATA[What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy!  And what have kings that privates have not too,   Save ceremony, save general ceremony?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, slumbering in the open air,   Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!    And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,     Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56426]]></link><description><![CDATA[So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I know is what I read in the papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44488]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I know is what I read in the papers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44488</guid></item></channel></rss>