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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's anything serious that will keep him out for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50384]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46533]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can always come in. We are willing to cooperate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31008]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can always come in. We are willing to cooperate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10783]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50259]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. [Fr., Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom;  J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49766]]></link><description><![CDATA[States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,    To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature -- the urge to love and be loved -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8160]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature -- the urge to love and be loved -- must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross. At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He came here and he emerged and I didn't and that's all I heard, Fred this and Fred that, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35666]]></link><description><![CDATA[He came here and he emerged and I didn't and that's all I heard, Fred this and Fred that, ... I was proud of him. He was doing a great job and I wasn't. I got tired of hearing it, but I was proud of him at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is my religion - I could die for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is my religion - I could die for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15187]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you meet someone who alters your conception of love, and you never know how you loved anything before because this kind of love is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57791]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39532]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, I stole my little brother's toys and strapped them to the hood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, I stole my little brother's toys and strapped them to the hood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,  And touching all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58333]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,  And touching all the darksome woods with light,   Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing,    Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring,     Drops down into the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33011]]></link><description><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a country, I am not a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a country, I am not a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--   Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faith that stand on authority is not faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faith that stand on authority is not faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools admire, but men of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools admire, but men of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643</guid></item></channel></rss>