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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Of what avail are pedigrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of what avail are pedigrees?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose   Those made not poets, but the poets those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health without money is halfe an ague. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health without money is halfe an ague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52673]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59162]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anticipation makes the pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anticipation makes the pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27605]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ is born anew from day to day. The life that knoweth Him shall bide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14361]]></link><description><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few realize how much injury the dogma that baptism is necessary for salvation, badly expounded, has entailed. As a consequence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few realize how much injury the dogma that baptism is necessary for salvation, badly expounded, has entailed. As a consequence, they are less cautious. For, where the opinion has prevailed that all are lost who have not happened to be baptized with water, our condition is worse than that of God's ancient people -- as if the grace of God were now more restricted than under the Law!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16363]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is thicker than water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is thicker than water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non pervererint.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paper burns, but the words fly away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paper burns, but the words fly away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be great security problems as a result of the U.S. presence, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36206]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be great security problems as a result of the U.S. presence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not like work even when someone else does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62171]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not like work even when someone else does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is one great art of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is one great art of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be the miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35895]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their income will go up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous,  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51356]]></link><description><![CDATA[New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous,  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40924]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47794]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39604]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and make small changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can see a lot just by observing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44779]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can see a lot just by observing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63178]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one." [Lat., Odiosum est enim, cum a praetereuntibus dicatur:--O domus antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40225</guid></item></channel></rss>