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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[History, a distillation of rumor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19322]]></link><description><![CDATA[History, a distillation of rumor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more they drink the more they thirst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more they drink the more they thirst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No answer is also an answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No answer is also an answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great seal of truth is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great seal of truth is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15690]]></link><description><![CDATA[A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This might be the biggest parade we've ever had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32283]]></link><description><![CDATA[This might be the biggest parade we've ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66783]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39305]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation I had. I didn't get to hold him in my arms before he left. It just hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow's warning,  Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow's warning,  Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue--   An April day in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25025]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2848]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47381]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better buy than borrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better buy than borrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln  There is no little enemy. •Benjamin Franklin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln  There is no little enemy. •Benjamin Franklin  The friend of my enemy is my enemy. •Anonymous   With friends like this, who needs enemies? •Henny Youngman   It is impossible for one person to know another so well that he can dispense with belief. •Friedrich Durrenmatt   The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes. •Aesop   The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. •Sam Levenson  It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. •William Blake  He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. •Eddie Cantor  You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. •Eric Hoffer  I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. •Bette Davis  It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. •Sally Kempton  We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. •Ricther  Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work. •Anonymous  Enemies promises were made to be broken. •Aesop   The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. •William Ellery Channing   You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. •Joseph Conrad   Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. •R A Dickson   I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. •Benjamin Franklin   A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. •Baltasar Gracian   I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! •Warren Gamaliel Harding   Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. •Ernest Jones   Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. •John F. Kennedy   Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. •Stephen King   Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. •Francois De La Rochefoucauld   There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. •Frankfort Moore   He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. •Friedrich Nietzsche   Bear patiently with a rival. •Ovid   Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing. •Proverb   Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies. •Dante Gabriel Rossetti   Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy. •N. F. Simpson   Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right. •Gordon Sumner   One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. •Jonathan Swift   In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48736]]></link><description><![CDATA[For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the national average results is clear signs that speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft-landing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3581]]></link><description><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going on behind the scenes, but good bums come in all shapes and sizes''.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noting is more difficult than competing with a myth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noting is more difficult than competing with a myth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good clothes open all doors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good clothes open all doors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no living with thee, nor without thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no living with thee, nor without thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50071]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Of all my field goals), I'm proudest of that kick today. I can honestly say that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32976]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Of all my field goals), I'm proudest of that kick today. I can honestly say that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8993]]></link><description><![CDATA[If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55586]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20110]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22506]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There is no defect in Scripture, so anyone may "have the light of his natural understanding so completed... that there can be no want of needful instruction" for any good work God would have that person do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother was upon her knees, awed by the knowledge that she was praying for them. And here and there in the New Testament, we blunder in on Christ and find Him on His knees; and, once at least, ere we can escape, cannot but overhear Him pleading our names. "Neither pray I for these alone," that is, for Peter and John and the rest, "but for those who will believe through them"-- that is, for you and me. Hush! the Lord Christ is praying for you! And what is it He asks for us? That we be given such a spirit of unity and brotherliness and Christlikeness that people, coming upon us, will look at us, and look again, and then from us to Jesus Christ, seeking the explanation of us there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17150]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   The attitude of Jesus to the Jewish law was singularly free and unembarrassed. He made full use of it as an impressive statement of high ethical ideals; even its ritual practices He treated with perfect tolerance where they did not conflict with fundamental moral obligations. From Pharisaic formalism He appealed to the relative simplicity of the venerable written Law. But again from the written Law itself He appealed to the basic rights and duties of humanity: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; the Law might permit the dissolution of marriage, but there was something more deeply rooted in the nature of things which forbade it; the [law of retaliation], the central principle of legal justice, must go overboard in the interest of the holy impulse to love your neighbor, not merely as yourself, but as God has loved you. Such freehanded dealing meant that the whole notion of morality as a code of rules, with sanctions of rewards and punishments, was abandoned. But the average Christian was slow to see this implication. For instance, Jesus had taken fasting out of the class of meritorious acts, and given it a place only as the fitting and spontaneous expression of certain spiritual states. This is what an early authoritative catechism of the Church made of His teaching: "Let not your fast be made with the hypocrites, for they fast on Monday and Thursday; ye therefore shall fast on Wednesday and Friday." It sounds ludicrous, but we may ask, Was it not on some very similar principle that the Church did actually carry through its reconstruction of "religious observance"? And a Church which so perverted Christ's treatment of the ritual law proved itself almost equally incapable of understanding His drastic revision of the moral law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad Dorismar agreed to cooperate, but next time I would prefer a Mexican actress, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad Dorismar agreed to cooperate, but next time I would prefer a Mexican actress,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36592</guid></item></channel></rss>