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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies promises were made to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies promises were made to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65012]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life you need either inspiration or desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11994]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life you need either inspiration or desperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without labor nothing prospers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without labor nothing prospers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;  No bloody streamlet stained   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8626]]></link><description><![CDATA[No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;  No bloody streamlet stained   Earth's silver rivers on the sacred morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17536]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27773]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,— Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,— Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,— Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42620]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51724]]></link><description><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you don't do can be a destructive force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20699]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you don't do can be a destructive force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance, that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill vessels seldome miscarry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill vessels seldome miscarry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12325]]></link><description><![CDATA[DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything else has gone OK, but the salaries are the sticking point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything else has gone OK, but the salaries are the sticking point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44140]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead!  Of the three hundred grant but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead!  Of the three hundred grant but three,   To make a new Thermopylae!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66705]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582]]></link><description><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26656]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57670]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65224]]></link><description><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which Gad gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity and leave them with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,--  The truest mirror that an honest wife   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2771]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,--  The truest mirror that an honest wife   Can see her beauty in!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2771</guid></item></channel></rss>