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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,  Then part forever on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,  Then part forever on their courses fleet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14846]]></link><description><![CDATA[There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders of a certain class or group meet happily among themselves, then the one new thing, peace, and the one new man created by Christ, are missing; then no faith, no church, no Christ, is found or confessed. For if the attribute "Christian" can be given sense from Eph. 2, then it means reconciled and reconciling, triumphant over walls and removing the debris, showing solidarity with the "enemy" and promoting not one's own peace of mind but "our peace"... When this peace is deprived of its social, national, or economic dimensions, when it is distorted or emasculated so much that only "peace of mind" enjoyed by saintly individuals is left -- then Jesus Christ is being flatly denied. To propose, in the name of Christianity, neutrality or unconcern on questions of international, racial, or economic peace -- this amounts to using Christ's name in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,   For lo! my own shall come to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. •Mrs. Charles E. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. •Mrs. Charles E. Cowman  To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. •James Allen   All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. •Jean-Paul Sartre   No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. •Amar Gopal Bose   He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. •Joseph Heller   Failure is the tuition you pay for success. •Walter Brunell   Success is never final, but failure can be. •Bill Parcells   Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. •George Washington Carver   I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. •Michael Jordan   Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. •Confucius   The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. •Francis Picabia   You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. •Walt Disney  Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. •Rosalind Russell   My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. •Abraham Lincoln   Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. •George R. Tilton   I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. •George S. Patton   There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. •Barbara Ward   Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. •German Proverb   A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. •J. Paul Getty   Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. •Tony Richardson   Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. •Louis Boone   Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. •Jim Rohn  There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. •Laurence J. Peter   If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. •Robert H. Schuller   Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. •Truman Capote   There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. •Sri Swami Sivananda   Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. •Joe Paterno   Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. •Robert Louis Stevenson   Failures are like skinned knees -- painful, but superficial. •H. Ross Perot   I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody. •Herbert B. Swope   Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. •Zig Ziglar  A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is one of the highest shot totals we have had ever. We were shooting all our shots high early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30562]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is one of the highest shot totals we have had ever. We were shooting all our shots high early in the game. We needed to be shooting low on the goal. Once we started doing that, things turned around a little. Their goalie did a real good job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of thereal with the ideal never goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of thereal with the ideal never goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most countries, if you have drugs in your possession, in your suitcase or on you, the fact that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most countries, if you have drugs in your possession, in your suitcase or on you, the fact that you don't know about it or you were set up or you're carrying someone else's bag -- that is no excuse whatsoever and you're gonna be sentenced to the full extent of the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are more important than facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are more important than facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has always been a great liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has always been a great liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest hearts produce honest actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest hearts produce honest actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to shop around for the best gas prices in town, you're still going to get that rebate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32289]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to shop around for the best gas prices in town, you're still going to get that rebate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32987]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23571]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46313]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37193]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn from the new pool now forming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the art of thinking with sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the art of thinking with sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clyde was just unconscious tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clyde was just unconscious tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time goes by fast, and people go in and out of your life so quickly, so you should never miss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time goes by fast, and people go in and out of your life so quickly, so you should never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find the right fit as we move forward to renew men's basketball at Duquesne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13677]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57827]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64425]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the Last Supper, scene of the Resurrection appearances when the doors were shut, scene now of their waiting for the Spirit. Whose is it? The clue lies in Acts 12, where St. Peter, strangely freed from Herod's prison, knows at whose house they will be gathered for prayer. He knocks, startles the gate-girl Rhoda. It was "the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark" -- the young man who was to write the earliest of the gospels. The first meeting place of any Christian congregation was the home of a woman in Jerusalem. Something of the sort happens everywhere. The church in Caesarea centres upon Philip the Evangelist. "Now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." ... Joppa church depends on Tabitha, "a woman full of good works and almsdeeds which she did". Follow St. Paul about the Mediterranean. He crosses to Europe because he dreams of a man from Macedonia who cries, "Come over and help us". But when he lands at Philippi it is not a man, but a woman. "Lydia was baptized and her household" -- his first convert in Europe, a woman. Everywhere women are the most notable of the converts, often the only ones who believe. In Thessalonica there are "of the chief women not a few"; Beroea, "Greek women of honourable estate"; Athens, only two names, one of them, Damaris, a woman. At Corinth Priscilla and Aquila come into the story, the pair always mentioned together, and four times out of the six with the wife's name first, a thing undreamed of in the first century. Why? Because she counted for more in church affairs -- hostess of the church in her houses in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome, chief instructress of Apollos the missionary, intimate of the greatest missionary of all, St. Paul. Six times in the Epistles greetings are sent to a house-church, and in five cases the church is linked with a woman's name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1732</guid></item></channel></rss>