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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65924]]></link><description><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hard gives more then he that hath nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in August for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in August for the big energy companies, and the consumers get lumps of coal. There's really nothing to cheer about by anyone who gets a utility bill or has to fill up a gas tank. The energy lobbyists are the big winners, and the rest of us are left in the dust choking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the Lie Direct. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32625]]></link><description><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40188]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health,  The fit is strongest. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health,  The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave,   On their departure most of all show evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14358]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined. [Lat., Equidem aeterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum atentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a blamed uncertain thing  This pesky weather is; It blew and snew and then it thew,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a blamed uncertain thing  This pesky weather is; It blew and snew and then it thew,  And now, by jing, it's friz!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll meet a lot of folks that week. People will get to see the smile, the personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll meet a lot of folks that week. People will get to see the smile, the personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up toit, if you throw your heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up toit, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45137]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The neck moves and the shoulders move and the chest lifts and the diaphragm lifts. The pelvis goes up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The neck moves and the shoulders move and the chest lifts and the diaphragm lifts. The pelvis goes up and down. It's soft for the joints and yet it's very energetic and very aerobic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47033]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866  The word "carnal" is ambiguous. "Flesh" means sin and corruption, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866  The word "carnal" is ambiguous. "Flesh" means sin and corruption, and is opposed to the Spirit; but embodiment, outward manifestation, concrete form, is not opposed to the Spirit. "Carnal" means sinful and hostile to God; the evil spirits, who we suppose possess no bodies, are carnal, but the Son of God became man, the Word was made flesh, He took upon Him a human body as well as a reasonable soul. God's ways and thoughts are not ours. While the abstract and ethereal imaginations of human reason create a god, who is not spirit, and whom they do not worship in spirit and truth, the God of the Bible is God manifest in the flesh -- Emmanuel... Did not Jesus, after His resurrection, eat before His disciples, who gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and honey? Is not the earth to be the scene of God's triumph and manifestation? Whatever is revealed in spiritual, whatever man imagines is carnal; the end of the ways of God is embodiment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3467]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is love made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is love made visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56801]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in the Lord's Prayer would seem almost rude. One does not find the optative forms of polite petition so characteristic of elaborate requests made to earthly and heavenly potentates. Rather than employing such august forms, the Christians made their requests to God in what seem to be blunt imperatives. This does not mean that Christians lacked respect for their heavenly father, but it does mean that they were consistent with a new understanding of Him. In the tens of thousands of papyri fragments which have been rescued from the rubbish heaps of the ancient Greek world, one finds the imperative forms used constantly between members of a family. When the Christians addressed God as "Father," it was perfectly natural therefore for them to talk to Him as intimately as they would to their own father. Unfortunately, the history of our own English language has almost reversed this process. Originally, men used "thou" and "thee" in prayer because it was the appropriate familiar form of address; but now these words have become relegated to prayer alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21305]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12376]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8789]]></link><description><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28407]]></link><description><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years is a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12447</guid></item></channel></rss>