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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He had a face like a benediction (blessing). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14856]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a face like a benediction (blessing).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57927]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66427]]></link><description><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under Paul Fleming's stewardship. As a measure of our confidence in Paul and his team, we have retained the option to re-enter the joint venture in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27743]]></link><description><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to take care of the games against Dallas. These games against Dallas are going to be big swings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31572]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to take care of the games against Dallas. These games against Dallas are going to be big swings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24232]]></link><description><![CDATA[…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51504]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to avoid a property owner using sewer availability as leverage to get more units with the county. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to avoid a property owner using sewer availability as leverage to get more units with the county.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the depth and power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the depth and power which come from participation in eternal realities. But this new age cannot any more successfully live on religious faiths that are out of harmony with known truth, or that hang loose in the air, cut apart from the fundamental intellectual culture of the age. The hour has struck for the serious business of rediscovering the foundations, and of interpenetrating all life and thought with the truths and realities of a victorious religious faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60653]]></link><description><![CDATA[People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us are marginal. Gradually people will forget that we exist. And to make that happen more quickly, that completely senseless bill has been passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47330]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5670]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's secure is not safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54641]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's secure is not safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies,   Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This doesn't mean that it will remain so strong in the next couple of quarters, but the Federal Reserve cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34763]]></link><description><![CDATA[This doesn't mean that it will remain so strong in the next couple of quarters, but the Federal Reserve cannot sit down and look and wait, because whatever they do today, it takes effect in six to 12 months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Minister: [on the phone to his sister] I'm very busy and important. How can I help you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister: [on the phone to his sister] I'm very busy and important. How can I help you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FranÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â§ois Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly independent nation, but not yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36926]]></link><description><![CDATA[FranÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â§ois Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly independent nation, but not yet part of a global European nation. We're in a no man's land. There is a longing for a monarch and a request for a stronger president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn the fundamentals of the game at your leisure and stick with them. Band-aid remedies never last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn the fundamentals of the game at your leisure and stick with them. Band-aid remedies never last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in the world, he was so far from wondering at them that, on the contrary, he was surprised that there were not more, considering the malice sinners were capable of... For his part, he prayed for them: but, knowing that God could remedy the mischiefs they did, when He pleased, he gave himself no further trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55418</guid></item></channel></rss>