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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54035]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch  Of workmanship so rare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch  Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish   You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confessed faults are half-mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confessed faults are half-mended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people; "for the kingdom of God consisteth in simplicity of faith, not in wordy contention.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50873]]></link><description><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call myself a 'domestic goddess.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call myself a 'domestic goddess.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40347]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36272]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26589]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41765]]></link><description><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's quite a remarkable accomplishment considering that fuel price increases are estimated to cost the company an additional $170 million, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42716]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's quite a remarkable accomplishment considering that fuel price increases are estimated to cost the company an additional $170 million, or $0.20 a share, in 2005,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private victories precede public victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private victories precede public victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope it shows ? yes these things are effective. We want concrete evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope it shows ? yes these things are effective. We want concrete evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29901]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn about adoption today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15714]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,   Star-eyed intelligence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51888]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5226]]></link><description><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12353]]></link><description><![CDATA[To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31082]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And dry the moistened curls that overspread   His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2845]]></link><description><![CDATA[UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The still small voice is wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The still small voice is wanted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You start to put them all together and ... add up what we already are spending, you're going to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30391]]></link><description><![CDATA[You start to put them all together and ... add up what we already are spending, you're going to find it's fairly significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most unglamorous picture of war I've ever read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most unglamorous picture of war I've ever read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item></channel></rss>