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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15464]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, we have to stop giving up so many fouls. But we have to be tougher on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31577]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, we have to stop giving up so many fouls. But we have to be tougher on our marking. We can't be pushed around, we have to get that first punch in and we have to grab and hold. If they call a penalty so be it, but we have stop giving up goals on free kicks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53330]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's healthy to have a decent lag time between discs, but if there's too much time in between, there might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31641]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's healthy to have a decent lag time between discs, but if there's too much time in between, there might be a drop off in interest. What amazes me is that no matter how obscure or generic a TV show might be, there's always someone who'll buy it. As long as the studios recognize this, they can manufacture modest quantities and generate respectable sales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18440]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48798]]></link><description><![CDATA[No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the thought of thinking Souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women should be obscene and not heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women should be obscene and not heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," said Calvin, "that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awakening has begun!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awakening has begun!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24418]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37398]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in the driver's seat anymore. But we can go out there and perform our best next weekend. It feels terrible, and I hope we don't feel like this again for the rest of the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26389]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in the twining bait,   And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.    Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!     How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an incurable disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an incurable disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence (seeming her fall to rew)   Adieu (she saith) adieu, deer Deer, adieu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All war represents a failure of diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12321]]></link><description><![CDATA[All war represents a failure of diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5859]]></link><description><![CDATA["When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6721</guid></item></channel></rss>