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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[To kiss the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kiss the rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of the competitors is stronger than him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28531]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of the competitors is stronger than him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64951]]></link><description><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42068]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand ofwelcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand ofwelcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56735]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is increased by spreading it to others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is increased by spreading it to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36188]]></link><description><![CDATA[To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in the world as an integral part of it, is the primary body through which the reality of the phrase "the Church is service" has to be manifested in all spheres of secular life: the Church has to show in her own life and attitude towards others the evidences of the redemptive order which is in Christ an operative fact: Christ the Lord is also Christ the servant: the Church which is the lord of all life is also the servant of all life, and the lordship is shown only through the service. The world wants to see redemption: it is not interested in being talked to about it. A church which is not outward looking... has ceased to be a church as the Body of Christ and has instead become a club for the benefit of its members.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll have to play much better in the second round in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. Rock my world with the basics.. And make me sing acoustics.. Life is short.. Feel it with music..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24257]]></link><description><![CDATA[No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18228]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66783]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13621]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus quasi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64542]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows,  The timid, bashful violet   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows,  The timid, bashful violet   Or the royal-hearted rose:    The pansy in purple dress,     The pink with cheek of red,      Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs,       Like a bashful maid her head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we're still going to have a good real estate market this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we're still going to have a good real estate market this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great paines quickly find ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great paines quickly find ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63024]]></link><description><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34750]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural inspiration or revelation; not considering that all true religion originates from reason, and can not othe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46675]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound,   Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53221]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's Labour 's Lost. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55475</guid></item></channel></rss>