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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, but I love myself more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, but I love myself more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50542]]></link><description><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12477]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom comes alone through suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom comes alone through suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see much risk of a blow out in financial credit spreads any time soon. The balance of risk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38804]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see much risk of a blow out in financial credit spreads any time soon. The balance of risk favors some widening but I expect only slight moderation in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way out is always through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way out is always through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one can say 'It lightens.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand,  When first the thoughtful and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand,  When first the thoughtful and the free,   Our fathers, trod the desert land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57257]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them   And show the heavens more just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discontented man finds no easy chair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discontented man finds no easy chair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God complaines not, but doth what is fitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49268]]></link><description><![CDATA[God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27597]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church because of many great misdeeds, not of one man or another but of almost all the people, we claim too much for ourselves if we dare withdraw at once from the communion of the church just because the morals of all do not meet our standard, or even square with the profession of Christian faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, they're all in the same position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, they're all in the same position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9430]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And tools to work withal, for those who will;   And blessed are the horny hand of toil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45148]]></link><description><![CDATA[No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone was encouraging to each other, ... It was more of a 'team' kind of thing; it wasn't like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone was encouraging to each other, ... It was more of a 'team' kind of thing; it wasn't like a tryout or anything. I'd played against a lot of the guys at the Combine, so we all kind of had a mutual respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't believe what's happening to my baby girl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupidity talks, vanity acts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40663]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with the approach of winter that cats... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with the approach of winter that cats... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that we've seen some pass-through of raw materials costs to producer prices, but retail inflation is still restrained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that we've seen some pass-through of raw materials costs to producer prices, but retail inflation is still restrained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57063]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57063</guid></item></channel></rss>