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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34790]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught me a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21653]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is trying to preserve a piece of land that's got oil wells all over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have closed all the holes and gaps. The situation on the border is now stable. The mess that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41318]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have closed all the holes and gaps. The situation on the border is now stable. The mess that we have had in the last few days is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28500]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44490]]></link><description><![CDATA[A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, slumbering in the open air,   Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!    And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,     Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/680]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22930]]></link><description><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not busy being born is busy dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21288]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not busy being born is busy dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21288</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[He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49380]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56961]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's CNN for security geeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's CNN for security geeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23209]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our experience is that Wal-Mart is a company that cares about the community it serves and is willing to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our experience is that Wal-Mart is a company that cares about the community it serves and is willing to put itself on the line with major issues, not the least of which is bringing missing children home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mmm... Organized Crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mmm... Organized Crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate;  The lonely mountains soar in scorn   As still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate;  The lonely mountains soar in scorn   As still as death, as stern as fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10226]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, therefore I'm single. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, therefore I'm single.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/743]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51825]]></link><description><![CDATA[She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.  ... Richard Chevenix Trench  April 8, 2000 Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51810]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54279]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60381]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la notre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5483]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41445</guid></item></channel></rss>