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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39161]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big soccer coach. His wife and family were number one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,  Many a monk and many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,  Many a monk and many a friar,   Many a knight and many a squire,    With a great many more of lesser degree,--     In sooth a goodly company;      And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee.       Never, I ween,        Was a prouder seen,         Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams,          Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59942]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas   Just above my chamber door;    And his eyes have all the seeming     Of a demon's that is dreaming,      And the lamplight o'er him streaming       Throws his shadow on the floor,        And my soul from out that shadow,         That lies floating on the floor,          Shall be lifted--nevermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam  Ignavis etiam jocus est in casu gravi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau  Qui pretend contenter tout le monde et son pere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27002]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30485]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells us to do something now and we're like, 'OK, whatever, J.J.' Everybody respects him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong,   Wise, foolish,--so am I;    Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat,     Or hurl the cynic's ban?      Let me live in my house by the side of the road,       And be a friend to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11505]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters by the door who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8453]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters by the door who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ so as to feel and know that, if God became man for us, men should not think themselves God, but men. He who, being man, wishes to appear God, does not imitate Him who, being God, became man. Thou art not bid to think less of thyself than thou art, but to know what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a religion, I have a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29433]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a religion, I have a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot expect people to take seriously our belief in objective truth if, in our practice, we indicate only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6204]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot expect people to take seriously our belief in objective truth if, in our practice, we indicate only a quantitative difference between all men who are in ecclesiastical structures or who use theological language. I do not mean that we should not have open dialogue with men; my words and practice emphasize that I believe love demands it. But I do mean that we should not give the impression in our practice that, just because they are expressed in traditional Christian terminology, all religious concepts are on a graduated, quantitative spectrum -- that, in regard to central doctrine, no chasm exists between right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22460]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode  Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height,   Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11864]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  Prodigal sons, forgiven and reconciled with their heavenly Father, could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  Prodigal sons, forgiven and reconciled with their heavenly Father, could they do other than forgive one another? A fellowship of prodigal sons came into being -- the church of Christ. Love begets love. A new power ... was let loose upon our suffering world, the power to love those who have not deserved love, the unworthy, the unlovely and unlovable, a man's enemies, and even his torturers. Christians, in imitation of the Saviour, became, as it were, Christs to one another and to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22278]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43031]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24372]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2623]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54275]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I will step into the pool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy with our decision-making down the stretch. That's probably the best we've done with that this year. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy with our decision-making down the stretch. That's probably the best we've done with that this year. We had seen Central come back before, but we managed the game well in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10081</guid></item></channel></rss>