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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27023]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just love, I love, I love movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just love, I love, I love movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is such an incredible friendship and relationship we have, and I know viewers like the way we play off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is such an incredible friendship and relationship we have, and I know viewers like the way we play off each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to touch someone to love them, It's not in the kiss, It's in the times you don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25889]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to touch someone to love them, It's not in the kiss, It's in the times you don't kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--   Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11773]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". It frequently appears to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7609]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". It frequently appears to the non-Christian mind that this is an immoral or at least unmoral doctrine. Paul appears to be saying that a man is justified before God, not by his goodness or badness, not by his good deeds or bad deeds, but by believing in a certain doctrine of Atonement. Of course, when we come to examine the matter more closely, we can see that there is nothing unmoral in this teaching at all. For if "faith" means using a God-given faculty to apprehend the unseen divine order, and means, moreover, involving oneself in that order by personal commitment, we can at once see how different that is from merely accepting a certain view of Christian redemption... That which man in every religion, every century, every country, was powerless to affect, God has achieved by the devastating humility of His action and suffering in Jesus Christ. Now, accepting such an action as a fait accompli is only possible by this perceptive faculty of "faith". It requires not merely intellectual assent but a shifting of personal trust from the achievements of the self to the completely undeserved action of God. To accept this teaching by mind and heart does, indeed, require a metanoia ["transformation"], a revolution in the outlook of both heart and mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow,  Gloves as sweet as damask roses,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow,  Gloves as sweet as damask roses,   Masks for faces and for noses,    Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,     Perfume for a lady's chamber,      Golden quoifs and stomachers       For my lads to give their dears,        Pins and poking-sticks of steel,         What maids lack from head to heel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be when he was my age, when he was in his prime, because we are so much alike,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river,  Like the bubble on the fountain,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river,  Like the bubble on the fountain,   Thou are gone, and for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43327]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any man living should outgo me in desires that all who fear God throughout the world, especially in these nations, were of one way as well as of one heart. I know I desire it sincerely; but I do verily believe that when God shall accomplish it, it will be the effect of love, and not the cause of love. It will proceed from love, before it brings forth love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all religious fear barbarous and degrading and demand that it should be banished from the spiritual life. Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things--ignorance, alcohol, passion presumption, and stupidity. It is very desirable that we should all advance to that perfection of love in which we shall fear no longer; but it is very undesirable, until we have reached that stage, that we should allow any inferior agent to cast out our fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make alongthe way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22239]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make alongthe way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26149]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His confidence level is sky high. It was that way going into the game. He's taking this team over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31875]]></link><description><![CDATA[His confidence level is sky high. It was that way going into the game. He's taking this team over and he's so much more relaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31875</guid></item></channel></rss>