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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; itrepresents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; itrepresents the wise choice of many alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;  Ev'ything thet's done inhuman   Injers all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;  Ev'ything thet's done inhuman   Injers all on 'em the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;  The chest contriv'd a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;  The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay,   A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer  Cry cock-a-diddle-dowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer  Cry cock-a-diddle-dowe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is art but a way of seeing?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3271]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is art but a way of seeing?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12172]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2159]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,  At once the wonder, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,  At once the wonder, terror, and delight   Of distant nations; whose remotest shore    Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm;     Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults      Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll try to slow them down. They like to run, and we like to run. But we'll have to slow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll try to slow them down. They like to run, and we like to run. But we'll have to slow it down little bit and try to run what we want to run. They may have some depth, and I don't. We'll have to prepare for everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His essences turn the live air sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51698]]></link><description><![CDATA[His essences turn the live air sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't trade him for any other player in Tucson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't trade him for any other player in Tucson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39755]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48570]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34437]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23688]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19772]]></link><description><![CDATA[With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14773]]></link><description><![CDATA[All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24688]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, it (the study) appeared to have succeeded in gathering and combining a lot of different points of view. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40391]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, it (the study) appeared to have succeeded in gathering and combining a lot of different points of view. It's clear that there isn't a silver bullet to deal with some these issues, but there's potential for looking further into the viability of some of the ideas presented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came in wanting to focus on some of their guys but we couldn't recover from that first goal. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30828]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came in wanting to focus on some of their guys but we couldn't recover from that first goal. They have a couple of guys that that really flow that team. After they got that first goal, we kind of hit the panic button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be redeemed by a power outside himself. I do not regard the over-determined "optimists" as silly; they seem to me only the victims of a wishful thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37519]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a sense out there that resources are not fairly allocated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34349]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we got in a rhythm there in the second half. I think it was a definite improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we got in a rhythm there in the second half. I think it was a definite improvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge me... \'cause you ain't me... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge me... \'cause you ain't me...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness -- today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53349]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We loved with a love that was more than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We loved with a love that was more than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In just the last two and a half or three years, I've noticed a big difference in the clientele. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34674]]></link><description><![CDATA[In just the last two and a half or three years, I've noticed a big difference in the clientele.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1417]]></link><description><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23737</guid></item></channel></rss>