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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never assume the obvious is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never assume the obvious is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45875]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy and happy love and peace,  A rose with scarce a thorn:  But in the chillness of a second morn My rose bush drooped, and all its gay increase Was but one thorn that wounded me. I plucked the thorn and offered it to Thee, And for my thorn Thou gavest love and peace,  Not joy this mortal morn:  If Thou hast given much treasure for a thorn, Wilt Thou not give me for my rose increase Of gladness, and all sweets to me? My thorny rose, my love and pain, to Thee I offer, and I set my heart in peace,  And rest upon my thorn:  For verily I think to-morrow morn Shall bring me Paradise, my gift's increase, Yea, give Thy very Self to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[USC and Oklahoma are ranked in the topÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â two becauseÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â they haveÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â not taken essentially one-third of the season off, as Auburn has, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37657]]></link><description><![CDATA[USC and Oklahoma are ranked in the topÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â two becauseÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â they haveÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â not taken essentially one-third of the season off, as Auburn has, ... The Tigers have played I-AA Citadel, Louisiana-Monroe, Kentucky and Mississippi State. Between them, Oklahoma and USC have played onlyÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â three teams as bad as these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wake up every morning and thank God I’m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wake up every morning and thank God I’m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63179]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is still complicated for all the sides in the group, not only Spain , ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41158]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is still complicated for all the sides in the group, not only Spain ,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's providence is on the side of clear heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51938]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's providence is on the side of clear heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;   Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden    Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,     These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.      There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,       Gorging their hapless victims one by one;        Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,         Till evening roused them to the chase again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27025]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29407]]></link><description><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ants and the Grasshopper THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collectedin the summertime. A Grasshopper, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ants and the Grasshopper THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collectedin the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passedby and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired ofhim, Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?' Hereplied, I had not leisure enough. I passed the days insinging. They then said in derision: If you were foolish enoughto sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in thewinter.It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great   In that City of By-and-by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18839]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love--  And, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54408]]></link><description><![CDATA[In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love--  And, with the instinct of the homing dove,   I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge.    And when imperious Death     Has quenched my flame of breath,      Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25473]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42111]]></link><description><![CDATA[In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. We were wiped out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should all endure our own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should all endure our own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18694]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frugality is one thing, avarice another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is one thing, avarice another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord which is our constant lot. That is why we can study everything else in nature much more surely than we can study ourselves. With ourselves, all we have to go on is an occasional glimpse of some small part of the truth, and we must be content with that, knowing that we are truly known by Him who alone knows us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27944]]></link><description><![CDATA[When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must look into people, as well as at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5666]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must look into people, as well as at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, please save me from your followers! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47699]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, please save me from your followers!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23975</guid></item></channel></rss>