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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie told often enough becomes truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie told often enough becomes truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63756]]></link><description><![CDATA[We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt like the right idea. Everybody thought I was crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More will mean worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41916]]></link><description><![CDATA[More will mean worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,    Dominion absolute; that right we hold     By his donation; but man over men      He made not lord; such title to himself       Reserving, human left from human free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreathsRise from the hearthstones of our native hamletsCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,   And growing old in drawing nothing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18684]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37709]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original pen-and-paper game. We also want to thank the 300 000 players that registered for the Beta. We could not have done this without their support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see;  All discord, harmony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54252]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see;  All discord, harmony not understood;   All partial evil, universal good;    And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,     One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61047]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49097]]></link><description><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no problems with the old rules, but I think taking the red line away will hopefully add to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no problems with the old rules, but I think taking the red line away will hopefully add to scoring and make the game faster, ... As a defenseman, I look at scoring negatively, but it works both ways. I wonder about the expectations though. I played in Sweden, without a red line, and I don't think the game was faster. On the other hand, I wasn't playing with the best players in the world, as in the NHL. We'll adjust to the new icing rules and in a few years we won't remember what it was like before. There's always calls for new rules, but I just hope the game doesn't change too drastically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16901]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. •Charlotte Bronte   A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. •Bernard Meltzer   True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington   Friends are born, not made. •Henry Adams   Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. •Anonymous   Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. •Aristotle   A friend loveth at all times. •Bible, Proverbs 17:17   Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. •Charles Caleb Colton   A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them •Ralph Waldo Emerson   The only way to have a friend is to be one. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. •Euripides   It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. •F Scott Fitzgerald   We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. •François Duc de La Rochefoucauld   God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. •Ethel Watts Mumford   Love demands infinitely less than friendship. •George Jean Nathan   Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. •Friedrich Nietzsche   Hold a true friend with both your hands. •Nigerian Proverb   Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. •William Shakespeare   The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. •Logan Pearsall Smith   A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. •Henry David Thoreau   Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. •Bible, John 15:13  The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. •Mark Twain   Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. •Voltaire   Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. •Oscar Wilde   Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. •Virginia Woolf  Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. •Solon  Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. •Lavater  Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. •C. S. Lewis  If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. •Colton  Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. •John Seldon  There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. •Nabb  To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. •Syrus  True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. •Charles Caleb Colton  We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. •Evelyn Waugh  Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. •Lavater  Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. •Samuel Butler  A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. •Ralph Waldo Emerson,  If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. •Blaise Pascal  I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. •Plutarch  There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. •Francis Bacon  Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. •George Macdonald  A friend is, as it were, a second self. •Cicero   Friendship is Love without his wings! •Byron   To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. •Cicero   Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. •Shakespeare   That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. •Quarles   He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. •Joubert  Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. •Richter   Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. •Nathaniel Hawthorne   The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. •Buddha   Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. •Seneca   The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. •The Hitopadesa  Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. •La Fontaine   The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. •Moliere   One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. •Henry Brook Adams  A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. •Lord Samuel  While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. •Anonymous  Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. •Kehlog Albran  The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. •Henry David Thoreau   There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. •Buddha   The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. •Abraham Lincoln   If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. •Samuel Johnson   You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. •Star Jones  True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. •Theophrastus  True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington  But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. •Thomas Jefferson  True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62539]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This might be the biggest parade we've ever had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32283]]></link><description><![CDATA[This might be the biggest parade we've ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65375]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that deales in the world needes foure seeves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49332]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows whether they felt bad or they just wanted to get rid of it, because somebody, somewhere would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows whether they felt bad or they just wanted to get rid of it, because somebody, somewhere would have information as to who took it and where it's been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2495]]></link><description><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage  Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65477]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter of complaint, that we are fallen into so profane and skeptical an age, which takes a pleasure and a pride in unraveling almost all the received principles both of religion and reason, so that we are put many times to prove those things which can hardly be made plainer than they are of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to know God is to love many things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to know God is to love many things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54926]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love, they hate, but cannot do without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5624]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1272]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13903</guid></item></channel></rss>