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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25803]]></link><description><![CDATA[In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They think they have God Almighty by the toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41135]]></link><description><![CDATA[They think they have God Almighty by the toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[get the message out that limbs can be saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35037]]></link><description><![CDATA[get the message out that limbs can be saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betwixt the devil and the deep sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not a team that typically is able to come back from a 10-point deficit. We don't usually score ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not a team that typically is able to come back from a 10-point deficit. We don't usually score in bunches, but luckily, Darin got hot and brought us back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caring is a powerful business advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caring is a powerful business advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65715]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't been able to put together all facets (hitting, pitching and defense) of the game yet. One game we'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't been able to put together all facets (hitting, pitching and defense) of the game yet. One game we'll play poor defensively and hit well. The next game maybe we won't be hitting but our pitchers will pick us up. It will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27978]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43260]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13218]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've become a very sought-after partner for developing Broadway musicals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've become a very sought-after partner for developing Broadway musicals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very tight balance in world supply and demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41243]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very tight balance in world supply and demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor grip,   Let that aye be your border.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on education:   We demand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on education:   We demand, as [St. Paul] did, that the candidate must be of good moral character -- at least, so far as that he can produce testimonials to his good conduct. We demand, as the apostle demanded, that he must hold fast the faithful word -- at least, so far as that he shall not write deliberate heresy in his examination papers, and shall profess belief in the Creed. We demand, as he demanded, that the candidate must be apt to teach -- at least, so far as an examination of his verbal memory can prove that he knows what he ought to teach. But there is some difference between the "without reproach" of the apostle and our testimonials; and there is a difference between the holding fast of the faith by a man tried in the furnace of life, and the soundness in the faith of a youth fresh from a theological school; and the aptness to teach of a man of experience and social authority is not quite the same thing as the aptness to teach of a young man who has just passed an examination in the subject-matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does not always ask words, but it always wants work. The motives and not the means are the things on which it passes judgment. And the man who shows by his life that he is not ashamed of the Gospel will assuredly one day find that the Gospel is not ashamed of him. There is much more which might be said, but I refrain. Ere I close, you will let me add my emphasis to the fact that it is in our life and conduct that we must show our devotion to Christ. The silent Gospel reaches further than the grandest rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64187]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a new term, ... What it does is make us more aware of what we're doing. We do care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a new term, ... What it does is make us more aware of what we're doing. We do care about the students and want all of them to be successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  We have spoken throughout of the Divine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  We have spoken throughout of the Divine Commonwealth. That phrase represents Paul's "ecclesia of God". It is a community of loving persons, who bear one another's burdens, who seek to build up one another in love, who "have the same thoughts in relation to one another that they have in their communion with Christ". It is all this because it is the living embodiment of Christ's own Spirit. This is a high and mystical doctrine, but a doctrine which has no meaning apart from loving fellowship in real life. A company of people who celebrate a solemn sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, and all the time are moved by selfish passions -- rivalry, competition, mutual contempt -- is not for Paul a Church or Divine Commonwealth at all, no matter how lofty their faith or how deep their mystical experience; for all these things may "puff up"; love alone "builds up". In the very act, therefore, of attaining its liberty to exist, the Divine Commonwealth has transcended the great divisions of men. In principle, it has transcended them all, and by seriously living out that which its association means, it is on the way to comprehending the whole race. Short of that its development can never stop. This is the revealing of the sons of God for which the whole creation is waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2482</guid></item></channel></rss>