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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23719]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49129]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13157]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and can't digest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300]]></link><description><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and forests,   Repeating your ultimate word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65996]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60167]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the West Coast has been really good to us, too. Canada not so much, but that was before the album came out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any bidder, Smith & Johnson was required to secure services of a bonding company in the role of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any bidder, Smith & Johnson was required to secure services of a bonding company in the role of an insurance company. If for whatever reason the contractor is unable to perform, the bonding company steps in and takes over responsibility for the work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UA has suffered recurring losses from operations and may not generate sufficient liquidity to meet its financial obligations as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29663]]></link><description><![CDATA[UA has suffered recurring losses from operations and may not generate sufficient liquidity to meet its financial obligations as they become due,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have only one God. So how can we claim to have... "Good News" unless people can see in us that Jesus Christ is breaking down barriers and bringing us together?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away,  While thou must toil to gain a flight,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away,  While thou must toil to gain a flight,   And spread those pinions grey;    But when they once are fairly poised,     Far o'er each chirping thing      Thou sailest wide to other lands,       E'en sleeping on the wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12599]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55799]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot afford to hire an attorney at $200 to $300 an hour to fight over your $12,000 car and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10175]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot afford to hire an attorney at $200 to $300 an hour to fight over your $12,000 car and have to pay those bills. People need to become aware that they have some rights, even when going up against these giant companies that try to intimidate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old are in a second childhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old are in a second childhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29010]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California will have an unprecedented starting field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31683]]></link><description><![CDATA[California will have an unprecedented starting field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno  Si leggesse in fronte scritto,   Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,    Ci farebbero pieta!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7800]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat; yet put out the candle, and both are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15698]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Court hath no Almanack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Court hath no Almanack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unto the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unto the spiritual things of the Gospel; but a profluency of speech, venting itself on all occasions and on no occasions, making men open their mouths wide when indeed they should shut them and open their ears, and to pour out all that they know and ... what they do not know, making them angry if they are not heard and impatient if they are contradicted, is an unconquerable fortification against all true spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66524]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21872]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow is immensely rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full restoration, if you're talking about the way they were in 1972, I think is impossible. A lot of cities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full restoration, if you're talking about the way they were in 1972, I think is impossible. A lot of cities have been built in the lowlands that have been dried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29816</guid></item></channel></rss>