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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29088]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy and a home for the Jewish people,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything can be improved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything can be improved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a female, Katydid! I know it by the trill  That quivers through thy piercing notes   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a female, Katydid! I know it by the trill  That quivers through thy piercing notes   So petulant and shrill.    I think there is a knot of you     Beneath the hollow tree,      A knot of spinster Katydids,--       Do Katydids drink tea?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne  Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11676]]></link><description><![CDATA[So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne  Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give   Matter for virtuous Deedes, by which wee live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,  Et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16116]]></link><description><![CDATA[La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,  Et dont l'autre est tenu par un grand imbecile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're still considering what the charges will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ... as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.... Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw doubt, but, when once decided, going through his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was the most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known.... He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man ... On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect ... it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a lot of money here. That's the name of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right as a trivet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right as a trivet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message as doing everything with style and panache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10332]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of Bunker Hill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37023]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia . . . they seemed to be written in sunbeams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6759]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in the Lord's Prayer would seem almost rude. One does not find the optative forms of polite petition so characteristic of elaborate requests made to earthly and heavenly potentates. Rather than employing such august forms, the Christians made their requests to God in what seem to be blunt imperatives. This does not mean that Christians lacked respect for their heavenly father, but it does mean that they were consistent with a new understanding of Him. In the tens of thousands of papyri fragments which have been rescued from the rubbish heaps of the ancient Greek world, one finds the imperative forms used constantly between members of a family. When the Christians addressed God as "Father," it was perfectly natural therefore for them to talk to Him as intimately as they would to their own father. Unfortunately, the history of our own English language has almost reversed this process. Originally, men used "thou" and "thee" in prayer because it was the appropriate familiar form of address; but now these words have become relegated to prayer alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be firm or mild as the occasion may require. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll never change. He thinks he's invincible. I feel sorry for his girlfriend because he will always stray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40512]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll never change. He thinks he's invincible. I feel sorry for his girlfriend because he will always stray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All life is an experiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14658]]></link><description><![CDATA[All life is an experiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13384]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49958]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the "worldliness" of Christianity as never before. The Christian is not a homo religiosus but a man, pure and simple, just as Jesus became man... It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to believe. One must abandon every attempt to make something of oneself, whether it be a saint, a converted sinner, a churchman, a righteous man, or an unrighteous one, a sick man or a healthy one... This is what I mean by worldliness -- taking life in one's stride, with all its duties and problems, its successes and failures, its experiences and helplessness... How can success make us arrogant or failure lead us astray, when we participate in the sufferings of God by living in this world?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will continue to receive treatment and will be monitored over the next couple of days and a decision regarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34718]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will continue to receive treatment and will be monitored over the next couple of days and a decision regarding his availability for Sunday will be made in due course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:  And sure he must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:  And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,   Who please one against his Will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and sunny--   But of all the lunar things that change,    The one that shows most fickle and strange,     And takes the most eccentric range,      Is the moon--so called--of honey!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42830]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You heard about the Medicare actuary who was forced to fudge the numbers and lie to Congress to keep his job. You heard the falsified numbers in Iraq on everything from the cost of the war to the number of trained Iraqi troops to a slam dunk case for weapons of mass destruction. You heard about the administration sponsored fake newscasts to mislead people all across America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42830</guid></item></channel></rss>