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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feed the musician, and he's out of tune ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feed the musician, and he's out of tune]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28450]]></link><description><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their umpiring ranks about being able to retain numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is the nose of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is the nose of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The battle and the breeze!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're well away from that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're well away from that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life to-day that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin.   Let me use disappointment as material for patience:   Let me use success as material for thankfulness:   Let me use suspence as material for perseverance:   Let me use danger as material for courage:   Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering:   Let me use praise as material for humility:   Let me use pleasures as material for temperance:   Let me use pains as material for endurance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seemed to me that he was there for her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seemed to me that he was there for her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53469]]></link><description><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But twenty times I rather would be   An atheist clean,    Than under gospel colours hid be,     Just for a screen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the summer showers to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around and we're like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it's lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65925]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's best friends are his ten fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best friends are his ten fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or maufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel. Selling out to the corporate butcher would secure me a nice little place in hell, I knew. So I determined early on to make it on my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,   By a rifleman hid in the thicket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31329]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and there were times when he lost touch with the strike zone. I was impressed with how he came back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing no murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing no murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised by DFAT that that would be outside the UN sanctions and a breach of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for the bottle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for the bottle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong  Because of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong  Because of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to be closer and have the same goals in mind. I see it starting to happen here. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to be closer and have the same goals in mind. I see it starting to happen here. The atmosphere is different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20973]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392</guid></item></channel></rss>