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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10775]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61792]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest  Id velis quod possis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray;  Gone is the sun, come are the stars, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray;  Gone is the sun, come are the stars,   And night infolds the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13161]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved the "little child that shall lead them yet." No other statesman but Wilson could have done it. And he did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550   To be prayerless is to be without God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550   To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who know little say much. Man who know much say little. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who know little say much. Man who know much say little. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In theory, it's great. But I'm concerned that repeatedly when we look around the most troubled school districts, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37532]]></link><description><![CDATA[In theory, it's great. But I'm concerned that repeatedly when we look around the most troubled school districts, there is not a lot of choice being given to kids. The school districts drag their feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still;  The Christmas bells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still;  The Christmas bells from hill to hill   Answer each other in the mist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam  Ignavis etiam jocus est in casu gravi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can't be cured must be endured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can't be cured must be endured]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to peace, peace is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45853]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to peace, peace is the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We saw a tremendous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but we also know that con artists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We saw a tremendous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but we also know that con artists will take every opportunity to exploit and profit from those who have experienced great loss,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25089]]></link><description><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50244]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin;  And therefore no true saint allows,   They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26557]]></link><description><![CDATA['Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin;  And therefore no true saint allows,   They shall be suffer'd to espouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!  Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59447]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!  Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow!   'Tis a sharper--who stakes his penury    Against thy plenty--takes thy ready cash,     And pays thee naught but wishes, hopes, and promises,      The currency of idiots--injurious bankrupt,       That gulls the easy creditor!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me to think that almost any company of clergymen gathering together and talking freely to one another will express opinions which would greatly surprise and at the same time relieve the congregations who ordinarily listen to these ministers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am verily a man which am a Jew, born is Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am verily a man which am a Jew, born is Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14168]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56980]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty binds me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty binds me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found it so if you have ever taken your New Testament and tried to make it the rule of your daily life -- that there is not a single action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ, if he were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those circumstances and with the materials upon which you are called upon to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was just a huge need in the industry for some independent people with a real strong knowledge of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33170]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was just a huge need in the industry for some independent people with a real strong knowledge of the industry and their methods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40912</guid></item></channel></rss>