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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[They said it got lost somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37756]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said it got lost somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret fire shines on her face. Her hand rests by an iron spike from the wood thrust high  ("The nails in His hands!" ) An open chink in the rude, cold shed lets in the sky, and the Star that led shepherds and kings pours down its light: a silver shaft through the frosty night  ("The spear in His side!") Her hands reach out, as to push away the cross-crowned hill and the bloody day; they touch a rough, unyielding wall: the stable side, of stone piled tall  ("The stone -- rolled away!").]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and warm clothing and they have helped to prevent many deaths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37216]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61072]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes  Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up   This deer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4910]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes  Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up   This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold    Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief,     Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26844]]></link><description><![CDATA[You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3111]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27912]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Mr. Citizen, 1960.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .   A tree depicts divinest plan,    But God himself lives in a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  The witness has never failed. Repeatedly, the light has shone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  The witness has never failed. Repeatedly, the light has shone forth in the darkness, held aloft by hands that perished in the destruction of the institution that failed. Christians tend to defend the institution of their own creation with tenacity. It is institutional Christianity that has often shackled the Church... Many of the missionary institutions of the Church are expendable. They should always be treated as expendable.  ... Leonard M. Outerbridge, The Lost Churches of China July 24, 1996 Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Men stand much upon the title of 'orthodox', by which is usually understood, not believing the doctrine of Christ or His apostles, but such opinions as are in vogue among such a party, such systems of divinity as have been compiled in haste by those whom we have in admiration; and whatever is not consonant to these little bodies of divinity, tho' possibly it agree well enough with the Word of God, is error and heresy; and whoever maintains it can hardly pass for a Christian among some angry and perverse people. I do not intend to plead for any error, but I would not have Christianity chiefly measured by matters of opinion. I know no such error and heresy as a wicked life... Of the two, I have more hopes of him that denies the divinity of Christ and lives otherwise soberly and righteously and godly in the world, than of the man who owns Christ to be the Son of God and lives like a child of the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation needs a new revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every generation needs a new revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58604]]></link><description><![CDATA[But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48432]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find yourself, think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22759]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find yourself, think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and lost   That never to have fought at all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38880]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different if he's taking snaps and his rheumatism is acting up, you know what I mean?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39732]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45653]]></link><description><![CDATA[if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made a lot of spirited plays. We left our men at times in the first half and they made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35473]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made a lot of spirited plays. We left our men at times in the first half and they made shots and then they started earning them, but they deserve a lot of credit for their effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the enemies of Iraq [who] are carrying out aggressive acts to get Iraq back to the old days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28938]]></link><description><![CDATA[the enemies of Iraq [who] are carrying out aggressive acts to get Iraq back to the old days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the labourer is worthy of his hire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48578]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the labourer is worthy of his hire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People from the area have told me that they are pleased to see the pupils wearing uniform and it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34774]]></link><description><![CDATA[People from the area have told me that they are pleased to see the pupils wearing uniform and it makes them proud to come from Niddrie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61744]]></link><description><![CDATA[He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61744</guid></item></channel></rss>