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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[You are no better than you should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27856]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are no better than you should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is overdoing the thing to die for love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21939]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is overdoing the thing to die for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no fun getting beat up in the press. That's for sure. I grew up more in that one year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no fun getting beat up in the press. That's for sure. I grew up more in that one year than I had in the previous 18.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?  Heav'n still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?  Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,   And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51376]]></link><description><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55018]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before;  And when war is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57130]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before;  And when war is over and all things are righted,   God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on remedies, not faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on remedies, not faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing here. So, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42591]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing here. So, to do it now and have those fans behind me one more time, it was pretty fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but 'after listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36233]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but 'after listening to the considerations',]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44563]]></link><description><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the game was lost in the (third) when we gave up five runs, then two more in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the game was lost in the (third) when we gave up five runs, then two more in the fourth. I think, if we had shut them down or held them to one or two runs, they probably wouldn't have been as aggressive as they were. But they can swing the bats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To Thee, who overseest all, And leads us through Life's shallow stream. How tangled are our straightest ways; How dimly flares our brightest star; How earthbound is our highest praise To Thee, who sees us as we are. Our feet are slow where Thine are fast; Thy kiss of grace meets lips of stone; And we admit Thy love at last To hearts that have none of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49330]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,   He understood b' implicit faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which can never fade;  How hath man parcel'd out thy glorious name, And thrown it on that dust which thou hast made, While mortal love doth all the title gain!  Which siding with invention, they together  Bear all the sway, possessing heart and brain (Thy workmanship), and give thee share in neither. Wit fancies beauty, beauty raiseth wit:  The world is theirs; they two play out the game,  Thou standing by: and though thy glorious name Wrought our deliverance from th' infernal pit, Who sings thy praise? only a scarf or glove  Doth warm our hands, and make them write of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government will fall that raises the price of beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government will fall that raises the price of beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45538]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to Versailles, although to go so far is   A thing not quite consistent with your ease,    And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is     To my describing what the traveller sees.      You who have ever been to Paris, know;       And you who have not been to Paris--go!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29551]]></link><description><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a novelist, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a novelist,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41917</guid></item></channel></rss>