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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you become senile, you won't know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1866]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you become senile, you won't know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59584]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think their response has been very measured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think their response has been very measured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8714]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investigation is advancing on both tracks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investigation is advancing on both tracks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13760]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. I never hit them. I yelled a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man thinketh he is rich enough in grace, till he take out his purse, and... then he findeth it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man thinketh he is rich enough in grace, till he take out his purse, and... then he findeth it but poor and light in the day of a heavy trial. I found I had not enough to bear my expenses, and should have fainted, if want and penury had not chased me to the storehouse of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55094]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins in wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins in wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  These things I did not see by the help of man, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  These things I did not see by the help of man, nor by the letter, though they are written in the letter; but I saw them in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by his immediate Spirit and power, as did the Holy men of God, by whom the Holy Scriptures were written. Yet I had no slight esteem of the Holy Scriptures; they were very precious to me, for I was in that spirit by which they were given forth; and what the Lord opened in me, I afterwards found was agreeable to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There's a time in your life where everyone's got to tell someone to f**k off. So you might as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18307]]></link><description><![CDATA["There's a time in your life where everyone's got to tell someone to f**k off. So you might as well show someone how to do it."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell   Themselves when they be felt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere   Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40521]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame it on a simple twist of fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame it on a simple twist of fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  I would very earnestly ask you to check your conception of Christ, the image ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  I would very earnestly ask you to check your conception of Christ, the image of Him which as a Christian you hold in your mind, with the actual revealed Person who can be seen and studied in action in the pages of the Gospels. It may be of some value to hold in our minds a bundle of assorted ideals to influence and control our conduct. But surely we need to be very careful before we give that "bundle" the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42950]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had some good looks ... and nothing dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had some good looks ... and nothing dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27514]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non potest.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6007]]></link><description><![CDATA[But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45574]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gives to all, denies all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gives to all, denies all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you and that's what you will be remembered by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to prepare dough ahead for pizza crusts too. Whenever I bake loaves of whole wheat, anadama, herb, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31140]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to prepare dough ahead for pizza crusts too. Whenever I bake loaves of whole wheat, anadama, herb, or other breads . . . I just mix up a little extra, package the dough in onepound lots, and freeze it right alongside my other ingredients. ThenÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwhen pizza day rolls aroundÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âall I have to do is go to the freezer and select one container of crust, one sauce, one sausage, and one cheese . . . thaw everything . . . roll out the dough and spread on the sauce, sausage, and cheese . . . bake my creation at 450ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â°F for about 15 minutes or until the cheese is slightly browned . . . and 'serve 'er up' to a hungry family of four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last season, I think that's when Drew really got interested in playing college sports, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31887]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last season, I think that's when Drew really got interested in playing college sports,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get rain, things could really perk up and look good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40172]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get rain, things could really perk up and look good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61250</guid></item></channel></rss>