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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, / To have loved, to have thought, to have done?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63399</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[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43205]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden evils are most dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hidden evils are most dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36803]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42720]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would have made had the ships been operated. And to pay for the expense of canceling 100,000 people and protecting travel agent commissions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34298]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33656]]></link><description><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and distributors, and ultimately for consumers, ... The initiative announced today will help evolve the digital distribution of content over the Internet to create new e-commerce opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,    We might, for aught that I can say,     Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography lends to death a new terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography lends to death a new terror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the quarter, we maintained our focus on managing costs, increasing revenue in our growth businesses, and improving customer satisfaction, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42520]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the quarter, we maintained our focus on managing costs, increasing revenue in our growth businesses, and improving customer satisfaction,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/687]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. It is a healthy energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think we will really be solid in the infield. Now in the outfield, we've got some new guys, we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think we will really be solid in the infield. Now in the outfield, we've got some new guys, we've got some young guys and we'll see. But we're bringing back three guys (in the infield) who've played there for three years and a guy who's a junior-college transfer who has experience at the college level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards any agreement or unity, it must be by fixing this principle in the minds of all men -- that it is of no advantage to any man whatever church or way in Christian religion he be of, unless he personally believe the promises, and live in obedience unto all the precepts of Christ; and that for him who doth so, it is a trampling of the whole gospel under foot to say that his salvation could be endangered by his not being of this or that church or way, especially considering how much of the world hath inmixed itself into all the known ways that are in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11538]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62331]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5475</guid></item></channel></rss>