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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49365]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66784]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20366]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word;  Well for those who have no fear,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word;  Well for those who have no fear,   Looking seaward well assured    That the word the vessel brings     Is the word they wish to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64374]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful, fantastic, incredible, ... Only Saskatchewan could do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonderful, fantastic, incredible, ... Only Saskatchewan could do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20014]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the busy haunts of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8767]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the busy haunts of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nike is a marketing machine with a culture that has developed over 30-plus years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nike is a marketing machine with a culture that has developed over 30-plus years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   Here you have the true reason why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   Here you have the true reason why revenge or vengeance is not allowed to man: it is because vengeance can only work in the evil or disordered properties of fallen nature. But man, being himself a part of fallen nature and subject to its disordered properties, is not allowed to work with them, because it would be stirring up evil in himself, and that is his sin of wrath or revenge. God therefore reserves all vengeance to Himself, not because wrathful revenge is a temper or quality that can have any place in the holy Deity, but because the holy supernatural Deity, being free from all the properties of nature, whence partial love and hatred spring, and being in Himself nothing but an infinity of love, wisdom, and goodness, He alone knows how to overrule the disorders of nature, and so to repay evil with evil, that the highest good may be promoted by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17018]]></link><description><![CDATA[My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,   And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For washing his hands, none sels his lands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49253]]></link><description><![CDATA[For washing his hands, none sels his lands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64415]]></link><description><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around - and we're like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it's lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43392</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[The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57286]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright; to have done, is to hang  Quite out of fashion, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright; to have done, is to hang  Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail   In monumental mock'ry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52057]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans of all faiths should be concerned whenever a house of worship is threatened. Religious and political leaders must speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans of all faiths should be concerned whenever a house of worship is threatened. Religious and political leaders must speak out against the anti-Muslim bigotry that can prompt such threats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the old three-cornered hat    And the breeches and all that     Are so queer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47643]]></link><description><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63661]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63047</guid></item></channel></rss>