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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16165]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,  Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sad are only those who understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sad are only those who understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's special, especially in a team sport. It took a team effort to win. We weren't looking at this game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's special, especially in a team sport. It took a team effort to win. We weren't looking at this game as his 300th win, we just looked at it as our first game of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have a credible force in the region and are prepared to use it in an appropriate way at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41265]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have a credible force in the region and are prepared to use it in an appropriate way at a time of our choosing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23017]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. •Johann Kaspar Lavater  It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. •Fred Allen   We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices continue to climb even though construction is under way. That means what may conceivably happen as we go along, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices continue to climb even though construction is under way. That means what may conceivably happen as we go along, because we're locked into a number, is we may have to make cuts. If we start bumping up against the educational specifications, that's going to be tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47360]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7588]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was in Galilee, men could not find Him in Jerusalem; if He was in Jerusalem, men could not find Him in Galilee. His Ascension means that He is perfectly united with God; we are with Him wherever we are present to God; and that is everywhere and always. Because He is "in Heaven" He is everywhere on earth: because He is ascended, He is here now. Our devotion is not to hold us by the empty tomb; it must lift up our hearts to heaven so that we too "in heart and mind thither ascend and with Him continually dwell": it must also send us forth into the world to do His will; and these are not two things, but one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51046]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of players with a lot of potential. My team is getting better and better, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of players with a lot of potential. My team is getting better and better, but I prefer a team to a collection of stars. As a manager, you can never depend on one player. If he is injured, sick or thinks 'today I won't work' then you will lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey to be produced, and yet offer the Attic bee nothing but Corsican thyme?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were well aware coming into this game that playing Falmouth was going to be a learning experience for many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were well aware coming into this game that playing Falmouth was going to be a learning experience for many of our younger players,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   I do not think I am fanciful in discerning among some of those who most earnestly plead against the Christian social movement a feeling that there is something fundamentally intractable, inscrutable, mysterious about the world, and that no more can be hoped for than an heroic protest in the name of Christ, made in obedience but with no sort of hope that anything can come of it. I hope I am not wrong in saying that there is nothing Christian in such an attitude. It savours of the Paganism that saw behind the world a kind of ironical malice; that made Polycrates throw his ring into the sea, and called the Furies the Kindly Ones, if haply they might be so appeased.   But we stand outside this world of darkness, for we have learnt that all things were created by the eternal Word, who is Christ Jesus. We know, in the Pauline phrase, that it is in Him that the whole universal order of things consists or holds together. Those who have come to know that, know in consequence that they are in their Father's house. It is a big house, and they have begun to explore only a little of it. It has great reaches, and some of them are still shadowy. But it is His house, all of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25243]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47913]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22488]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9061]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57905]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen   Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam    To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds;     But never till to-night, never till now,      Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some of the kids, going to camp might be as far as they get away from home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38222]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some of the kids, going to camp might be as far as they get away from home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51407]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59475]]></link><description><![CDATA[She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17703]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My teammates' play behind me helped. Every time I start, I get stronger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30849]]></link><description><![CDATA[My teammates' play behind me helped. Every time I start, I get stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what it's like to be married works either way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.   - James Anthony Froude, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.   - James Anthony Froude,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10658</guid></item></channel></rss>