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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6447]]></link><description><![CDATA[If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of the Christian salvation,... the Church itself will not be much enriched by an accession of panic-stricken fugitives from a Personal God. And many unhappy young people are discovering now that Church membership is not the equivalent of being reconciled to God, and a kind of Confirmation is not a substitute for Conversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/948]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42252]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there really isn't any threat of inflation out there. Remember all those terrible surprises we used to get on Fridays? It's about time the bond market got a good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56080]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desiring things widely different for their various tastes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we have to rebuild, we just have to keep them going like they played today, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we have to rebuild, we just have to keep them going like they played today,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  In his enthusiasm, the evangelist often finds it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  In his enthusiasm, the evangelist often finds it difficult seriously to imagine that anyone could be called not to be an evangelist. The man of vision and imagination finds it difficult to see the value of those who do no more than plod on faithfully along a well-tried road. The man whose concern is in personal dealing with people and leading them to understand God better finds it difficult to be patient with the theologian or the Christian philosopher whose work is in the quiet of a book-lined study. Yet the truth is that the wholeness which God is working to achieve is never complete in an individual, but through individuals living together as one body, each supplying the deficiencies of the others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6516]]></link><description><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving brave men he met in the anti-Nazi underground, the stark realities of prison life, and his disappointment in the professional churchmen of Germany, all may have influenced Bonhoeffer to see real Christianity as "non-religious" and "worldly"... The opposition between sacred and secular, supernatural and natural, seemed unreal to him -- the apparent opposites are united in Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1920]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That what will come, and must come, shall come well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17076]]></link><description><![CDATA[That what will come, and must come, shall come well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  In that obedience which we have shown to be due ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  In that obedience which we have shown to be due the authority of rulers, we are always to make this exception, indeed, to observe it as primary, that such obedience is never to lead us away from obedience to him, to whose decrees all their commands ought to yield, to whose majesty their scepters ought to be submitted. And how absurd would it be that in satisfying men you should incur the displeasure of him for whose sake you obey men themselves! The Lord, therefore, is the King of Kings, who, when he has opened his sacred mouth, must alone be heard, before all and above all men; next to him we are subject to those men who are in authority over us, but only in him. If they command anything against him, let it go unesteemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58408]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our mission ... is to help people better understand and value their freedoms so they can protect and defend them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our mission ... is to help people better understand and value their freedoms so they can protect and defend them. As citizens of a democratic society, we can't take our freedoms for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that includes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that includes being "friends with" his fellow man. Christ stated emphatically that it was quite impossible, in the nature of things, for a man to be at peace with God and at variance with his neighbor. This disquieting fact is often hushed up, but it is undeniable that Christ said it, and the truth of it is enshrined in the petition for forgiveness in the "Lord's Prayer.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of prophets of the future is the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of prophets of the future is the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of the post office [currently] is as trusted third party with an unparalleled workforce and physical locations, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of the post office [currently] is as trusted third party with an unparalleled workforce and physical locations, ... Who else can claim so many countertops and employees, and the trust of virtually every merchant in the country with their money, with their bills, with everything?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee,  I have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee,  I have not thirsted for Thee: And now cold billows of death surround me, Buffeting billows of death astound me,  Wilt Thou look upon, wilt Thou see  Thy perishing me?" "Yea, I have sought thee, yea, I have found thee,  Yea, I have thirsted for thee, Yea, long ago with love's bands I bound thee: Now the Everlasting Arms surround thee,  Through death's darkness I look and see  And clasp thee to Me.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50173]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51604]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be some upsets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided to buy something that doesn't use as much gas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39698</guid></item></channel></rss>