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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[This is about the tenth station I've come by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32918]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is about the tenth station I've come by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a healthy two-way trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a healthy two-way trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49344]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47995]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three can hold their peace, if two be away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three can hold their peace, if two be away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I was educated, I'd be a damn fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16358]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I was educated, I'd be a damn fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58206]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda patimur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34082]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seven works of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seven works of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and the needy, harbour the houseless, comfort the sick, visit prisoners, bury the dead. The seven works of spiritual mercy be these: teach men the truth, counsel men to hold with Christ's law, chastise sinners by moderate reproving in charity, comfort sorrowful men by Christ's passion, forgive wrongs, suffer meekly reproofs for the right of God's law, pray heartily for friend and for foe.   ... Middle English Sermons  September 6, 2001 Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   Of the access for us, at any rate, to the spirit of life -- us who were born in Christendom, and are in touch, conscious or unconscious, with Christianity -- this is the true account. Questions over which the churches spend so much labour and time -- questions about the Trinity, about the godhead of Christ, about the procession of the Holy Ghost -- are not vital; what is vital is the doctrine of access to the spirit of life through Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth;… and there is salmons in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55968]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth;… and there is salmons in both. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?" someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9768]]></link><description><![CDATA["Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?" someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20312]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And every dew-drop paints a bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12198]]></link><description><![CDATA[And every dew-drop paints a bow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43306]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63357]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50005]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31933]]></link><description><![CDATA[A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or eight best out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum  Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33077]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled "anti-Semitic."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,   Or but a wandering Voice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53471]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the market can make a lot of headway until we get an idea of the depth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the market can make a lot of headway until we get an idea of the depth and breadth of the profit recession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15310</guid></item></channel></rss>