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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk;  Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16412]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk;  Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see   The curved line ever follow thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57169]]></link><description><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone. [Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His shot is hard enough when you can see it. So when it comes across on a one-timer like that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28808]]></link><description><![CDATA[His shot is hard enough when you can see it. So when it comes across on a one-timer like that, with a screen in front, that's even tougher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--so far, I mean, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57856]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  In short: in all his ways and walks, whether as touching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  In short: in all his ways and walks, whether as touching his own business, or his dealings with other men, he must keep his heart with all diligence, lest he do aught, or turn aside to aught, or suffer aught to spring up or dwell within him or about him, or let anything be done in him or through him, otherwise than were meet for God, and would be possible and seemly if God Himself were verily made Man.  ... Theologia Germanica    November 12, 1997  The Partisan Review, a journal of literary opinion representing a section of advanced secular thought, recently published a series of papers answering the question, "Why has there been a turn toward religion among intellectuals?" The asking of the question is significant. Few writers dispute the fact implied by it. Most of the contributors, whether they count themselves among those who have "turned to religion" or not, find the principal reason for it in the collapse of the optimistic hope that modern science and human good will would bring the world into an era of peace and justice. The confidence in that outcome has been so violently shaken that men must ask whether there are not higher resources than man's to sustain courage and hope. The faith of the Bible points to such sources. God works within the tragic destiny of human efforts with a healing power, and a reconciling spirit. Even those who have felt completely superior to all "outworn" religious notions, must look today at least wistfully to the possibility that such a God lives and works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2429]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other than the U.S. payrolls data, there isn't any fresh market-moving factor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other than the U.S. payrolls data, there isn't any fresh market-moving factor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17364]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50919]]></link><description><![CDATA[All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me he wasn't getting into the middle of this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40762]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me he wasn't getting into the middle of this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can save your marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can save your marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20600]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness dependsfar more on the way we meet the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness dependsfar more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of thoseevents themselvers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13195]]></link><description><![CDATA["Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", not the Bible, save as leading to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We also met casting directors and others in the field and got to find out what they did and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We also met casting directors and others in the field and got to find out what they did and they were really nice to me. At the end of the day, I'm proud of myself because a lot of people can't go up on a stage and talk in front of thousands of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give advice unless you're asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give advice unless you're asked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,   And summer's lease hath all too short a date.    Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,     And often is his gold complexion dimmed;      And every fair from fair sometime declines,       By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:        But thy eternal summer shall not fade         Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,          Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade           When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.            So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,             So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your folks were Democrat or Republican you tend to vote that way. If your folks were green and red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28697]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your folks were Democrat or Republican you tend to vote that way. If your folks were green and red you tend to follow that tradition. My theory is that has a tendency to follow through with what equipment you run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good night! I have to say good night, To such a host of peerless things! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good night! I have to say good night, To such a host of peerless things!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no night without stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66095]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no night without stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66095</guid></item></channel></rss>