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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56407]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to change my life a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34150]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to change my life a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Guard or any service is there for that reason. It's a job and it's what the military requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Guard or any service is there for that reason. It's a job and it's what the military requires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!  Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59447]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!  Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow!   'Tis a sharper--who stakes his penury    Against thy plenty--takes thy ready cash,     And pays thee naught but wishes, hopes, and promises,      The currency of idiots--injurious bankrupt,       That gulls the easy creditor!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was lawyers nominated, but nothing would happen. I guess I got into someone's ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33892]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was lawyers nominated, but nothing would happen. I guess I got into someone's ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43988]]></link><description><![CDATA[How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52217]]></link><description><![CDATA[...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the problem, ... What's 'highly qualified' mean? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31100]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the problem, ... What's 'highly qualified' mean?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20289</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[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion.  For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion.  For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7562]]></link><description><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself a good argument, because it seems to imply that, if the danger could be removed, if there was no risk of a child and no peril of infection, then the objection would be removed, too. It tends to imply that the objection is to the attendant dangers and not to the thing itself. But if sexual intercourse before and outside marriage is against the teaching of Jesus, then the thing is not only dangerous, it is wrong in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    My candle's out,     I've no more fire;--      For love of God       Open thy door!        [Fr., Au clair de la lune         Mon ami Pierrot,          Prete moi ta plume           Pour ecrire un mot;            Ma chandelle est morte,             Je n'ai plus de feu,              Ouvre moi ta porte,               Pour l'amour de Dieu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;  Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10733]]></link><description><![CDATA[A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;  Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools,   Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His prostate cancer is no issue, it is completely controlled, ... There is no need to expect the imminent demise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28255]]></link><description><![CDATA[His prostate cancer is no issue, it is completely controlled, ... There is no need to expect the imminent demise of the Honorable Louis Farrakhan. He isn't going anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40646]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And with the saints, a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65949]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;   They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,    And flare up bodily, wings and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray to God, but hammer away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray to God, but hammer away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55452]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29435]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12922]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For trouts are tickled best in muddy water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1890]]></link><description><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2732]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2674]]></link><description><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51152</guid></item></channel></rss>