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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's single, massive star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest poetry was first experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest poetry was first experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23057]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5976]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the ides of March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the ides of March.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29088]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy and a home for the Jewish people,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27150]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53664]]></link><description><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3581]]></link><description><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going on behind the scenes, but good bums come in all shapes and sizes''.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't adopt them for a day. We just adopted them. We had heard that so many smaller areas were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't adopt them for a day. We just adopted them. We had heard that so many smaller areas were not getting help because of the focus on New Orleans. We all know what it's like to be a little town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59788]]></link><description><![CDATA[True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hit the ball very well even though we played good defense. They got too many hits. I think we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31320]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hit the ball very well even though we played good defense. They got too many hits. I think we [also] hit the ball pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art tempted, for the more thou art assailed by temptations, the greater friend and servant of God do I hold thee, and the greater love do I bear thee. Verily, I say to thee, let no man deem himself the perfect friend of God until he have passed through many temptations and tribulations... I am ready to endure patiently all things that my Lord would do with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37401]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get open and I get separation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61162]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini   In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter  Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau   All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37149]]></link><description><![CDATA[We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that we could sacrifice was an average of a dollar an hour. Those employees are on the low end of the scale. They're making eight, nine dollars an hour ... so a dollar from them is a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26798]]></link><description><![CDATA[In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35942]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only 64. He lived to be 100]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4305]]></link><description><![CDATA[May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be within you may your heart be strong. May you find what you're seeking wherever you roam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.  Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By afflictions, God is spoiling us [i.e., taking away from us] of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7498]]></link><description><![CDATA[By afflictions, God is spoiling us [i.e., taking away from us] of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully   That men did ever find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53455</guid></item></channel></rss>