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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59207]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee Lewis when I thought no one was around to correct me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10815]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, in the middle snow fall zone we could have up to 50 percent more deer, and in southern areas where we have a lot of agriculture in the landscape, perhaps around 15 percent fewer deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not be silent, patient, and watchful like a photographer? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not be silent, patient, and watchful like a photographer?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4878]]></link><description><![CDATA[In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can complain about somebody that gets elected, when nobody went and voted for him? If you don't like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can complain about somebody that gets elected, when nobody went and voted for him? If you don't like the Democrats, pick you a Republican. Pick somebody. Get off the couch and go vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52930]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47134]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16764]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41555]]></link><description><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66607]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13425]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who opens a school door, closes a prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;  In fact, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;  In fact, he had no singing education,   An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1017]]></link><description><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know coach's record. I don't know what everybody else's record is. But we're all cheering for her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know coach's record. I don't know what everybody else's record is. But we're all cheering for her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went right up to the top and stayed there for the first six years when Dennis was on. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37080]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went right up to the top and stayed there for the first six years when Dennis was on. Those were our highest-rated years. Dennis and I became over the years fast friends and stayed friends through the last 50 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me  Thoughts that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me  Thoughts that would thick my blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the patient wanted -- that's why this case is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a way, this election is the rebirth of Liberia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28282]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a way, this election is the rebirth of Liberia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the independents are doing well because they've found their special niche and can do it for less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the independents are doing well because they've found their special niche and can do it for less than a lot of the major chains can and they've been able to capitalize on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51906]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for ityet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22627]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for ityet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22627</guid></item></channel></rss>