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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18514]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues,  Unless to mortal it were given  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues,  Unless to mortal it were given   To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,  And smiles at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20734]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,  And smiles at my best meanings, I remain   Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clown sees life simply, without complications. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8925]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clown sees life simply, without complications.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29532]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art; to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11455]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,   Star-eyed intelligence?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see a wilde civility,--    Doe more bewitch me than when art     Is too precise in every part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager's infant son. Grieving over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake. The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail. After some time the Cottager, afraid that the Snake would bite him also, endeavored to make peace, and placed some bread and salt in the hole. The Snake, slightly hissing, said: There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of the death of your son. No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's going to be All-Big Ten. He's a great player. I really enjoy going against A.Q. because he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37433]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's going to be All-Big Ten. He's a great player. I really enjoy going against A.Q. because he can make me better and I can make him better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a more traditional baseball person. We're going to give the kids free rein to play the traditional style of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a more traditional baseball person. We're going to give the kids free rein to play the traditional style of baseball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy about it, because now I could just throw everything in one big bin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy about it, because now I could just throw everything in one big bin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2848]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see a different scheme or any major changes. They run their offense. Last week, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see a different scheme or any major changes. They run their offense. Last week, I think we saw a team that had to change things around a bit. Not this week. And has started before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55550]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12288]]></link><description><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a lot better defensively, and we played a faster-paced game like we're used to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29051]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a lot better defensively, and we played a faster-paced game like we're used to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, so far as he comprehends Jesus Christ, so far as he can get any knowledge of Him, is His servant -- the man who makes Christ a teacher of his intelligence and the guide of his soul -- the man who obeys Christ as far as he has been able to understand him... I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47996]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9274]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27135]]></link><description><![CDATA[And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64104]]></link><description><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21673]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say we put a good run in the first half and a good run in the second half. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say we put a good run in the first half and a good run in the second half. We didn't really play 40 minutes of basketball. The key (to playing a transition game) was the defensive intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61863]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been   If we had never met!    And has that thought been shared by thee?     Ah, no! that smiling cheek      Proves more unchanging love for me       Than labor'd words could speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fixing our healthcare system as a whole is our primary challenge, and to make it happen you need to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fixing our healthcare system as a whole is our primary challenge, and to make it happen you need to get engaged – to pound the pavement, get your hands dirty, endure real sacrifice, take on antiquated thinking and help lead the public debate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the guys don't turn up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16848</guid></item></channel></rss>