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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realize that it is quitepossible that you are whatyou say you are, you maywant to consider watchingyour thoughts.When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realize that it is quitepossible that you are whatyou say you are, you maywant to consider watchingyour thoughts.When you watch them,you are likely to findthat - just like littlechildren - they can, and do,play tricks on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul to-day Is far away  Sailing the Vesuvian Bay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul to-day Is far away  Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we groan, so also does the Holy Spirit groan with us, putting a meaning into our aspirations which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6346]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we groan, so also does the Holy Spirit groan with us, putting a meaning into our aspirations which they would not have of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955   Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it -- yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42119]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26814]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1324]]></link><description><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28542]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red tape, and we believe it will greatly up the approval process on franchise loans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57971]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to go in, I had an idea of what I could do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. •Sophia Loren  Nothing's beautiful from every point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. •Sophia Loren  Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. •Horace   Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. •George Brossin Méré   ...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. •James Matthew Barrie   In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. •Christopher Morley   Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. •Charles Reade   Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. •Kin Hubbard   Beauty is not caused. It is. •Emily Dickinson   Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. •Edward Gibbon   My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter? •Kotomichi   Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. •Campbell  Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful. •Mme. de Pompadour  Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. •Pope  Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. •Lazarus Long  Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. •Shakespeare  It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have. •The Duchess of Windsor  Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits. •Erasmus               The beautiful are never desolate,               But someone always loves them. •Bailey   Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. •Ambrose Bierce   Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. •Luis Cernuda   Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women. •Katherine Hepburn  A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. •Helen Rowland  There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. •Countess of Blessington  Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. •Johann von Schiller  When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. •Gregory I  The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs. •Marlene Dietrich  Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. •John Keats   I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? •Jean Kerr  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt. •Anonymous  What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. •Father Andre   Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. •Aristotle   I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. •Tyra Banks  Exuberance is beauty. •William Blake   Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! •Bessie Delanay  As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. •Kahlil Gibran  Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. •Immermann  Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. •Socrates  Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David went down in the second set, and the trainer came out and looked at him. I told him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30269]]></link><description><![CDATA[David went down in the second set, and the trainer came out and looked at him. I told him the match wasn't worth getting hurt over. I think it was just pure guts on his part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work at it night and day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work at it night and day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I repeat once again, Playboy Indonesia has not violated any Indonesian laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I repeat once again, Playboy Indonesia has not violated any Indonesian laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25921]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is being married to your best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is being married to your best friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51916]]></link><description><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51603]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone,  To look at his little snug ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12175]]></link><description><![CDATA[From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone,  To look at his little snug farm of the world,   And see how his stock went on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is the price of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is the price of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough match because Ruben is a clay-court player, ... But I think I was playing very well. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough match because Ruben is a clay-court player, ... But I think I was playing very well. I was doing the things I needed to do, playing from the back but also looking to come in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of thestars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37546]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59706]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a short series on Romans 8: Romans 8:14,16. Ephesians 1:13,14. The Witnessing and Sealing Spirit Why should the children of a king   Go mourning all their days? Great Comforter, descend and bring   Some tokens of thy grace. Dost though not dwell in all thy saints,   And seal the heirs of heaven? When wilt thou banish my complaints,   And shew my sins forgiven? Assure my conscience of her part   In the Redeemer's blood; And bear thy witness with my heart,   That I am born of God. Thou are the earnest of his love,   The pledge of joys to come; And thy soft wings, celestial Dove,   Will safe convey me home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/846</guid></item></channel></rss>